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Area of Science:

  • Emergency medical services
  • Dispatch protocols
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Background:

  • The Breathing Problems Chief Complaint (CC) protocol is the most frequently used in the Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS).
  • While severe breathing problems predict cardiac arrest (CA), DELTA-level codes encompass a wide acuity spectrum.
  • Previous data suggest a need for refined acuity assessment within this protocol.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the hypothesis that specific combinations of caller answers to key questions (KQs) in the Breathing Problems protocol correlate with distinct patient acuities.
  • To investigate the relationship between KQ combinations and patient acuity in emergency medical dispatch.

Main Methods:

  • A retrospective study was conducted at an IAED Accredited Center of Excellence.
  • Key Question (KQ) combinations were analyzed from 11 months of MPDS dispatch data.
  • Descriptive statistics were used to compare different study groups.

Main Results:

  • Of 42,000 cases, 74% were DELTA-level, with difficulty speaking between breaths (DSBB) being most prevalent (50.3%).
  • Ineffective breathing and not alert conditions showed the highest cardiac arrest quotient (CAQ).
  • CA patients with the 'not alert' condition were significantly older; asthmatic patients had higher CA rates with specific KQ combinations (e.g., DSBB plus not alert).

Conclusions:

  • MPDS KQ answer combinations are related to patient acuity, refining DELTA-level case assignment.
  • Cardiac arrest patients are less likely to be asthmatic than those without CA.
  • A prioritization scheme incorporating KQ combinations offers a more accurate method for assigning DELTA-level cases in the Breathing Problems protocol.