The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone

This report describes the main adaptive and transformative changes adopted by the brand-new National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) to face the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Sierra Leone, including ambulance re-distribution, improvements in communication flow, implementation of ad-h...

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Autores principales: Caviglia, Marta, Buson, Riccardo, Pini, Sara, Jambai, Amara, Vandy, Matthew Jusu, Venturini, Francesco, Rosi, Paolo, Barone-Adesi, Francesco, Della Corte, Francesco, Ragazzoni, Luca, Putoto, Giovanni
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Field Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7545255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32959740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001211
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author Caviglia, Marta
Buson, Riccardo
Pini, Sara
Jambai, Amara
Vandy, Matthew Jusu
Venturini, Francesco
Rosi, Paolo
Barone-Adesi, Francesco
Della Corte, Francesco
Ragazzoni, Luca
Putoto, Giovanni
author_facet Caviglia, Marta
Buson, Riccardo
Pini, Sara
Jambai, Amara
Vandy, Matthew Jusu
Venturini, Francesco
Rosi, Paolo
Barone-Adesi, Francesco
Della Corte, Francesco
Ragazzoni, Luca
Putoto, Giovanni
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description This report describes the main adaptive and transformative changes adopted by the brand-new National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) to face the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Sierra Leone, including ambulance re-distribution, improvements in communication flow, implementation of ad-hoc procedures and trainings, and budget re-allocation. In a time-span of four months, 1,170 COVID-19 cases have been handled by the NEMS through a parallel referral system, while efforts have been made to manage the routine emergencies of the country, causing a substantial intensification of daily activities.
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spelling pubmed-75452552020-10-09 The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone Caviglia, Marta Buson, Riccardo Pini, Sara Jambai, Amara Vandy, Matthew Jusu Venturini, Francesco Rosi, Paolo Barone-Adesi, Francesco Della Corte, Francesco Ragazzoni, Luca Putoto, Giovanni Prehosp Disaster Med Field Report This report describes the main adaptive and transformative changes adopted by the brand-new National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) to face the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Sierra Leone, including ambulance re-distribution, improvements in communication flow, implementation of ad-hoc procedures and trainings, and budget re-allocation. In a time-span of four months, 1,170 COVID-19 cases have been handled by the NEMS through a parallel referral system, while efforts have been made to manage the routine emergencies of the country, causing a substantial intensification of daily activities. Cambridge University Press 2020-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7545255/ /pubmed/32959740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001211 Text en © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Caviglia, Marta
Buson, Riccardo
Pini, Sara
Jambai, Amara
Vandy, Matthew Jusu
Venturini, Francesco
Rosi, Paolo
Barone-Adesi, Francesco
Della Corte, Francesco
Ragazzoni, Luca
Putoto, Giovanni
The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone
title The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone
title_full The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone
title_fullStr The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone
title_full_unstemmed The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone
title_short The National Emergency Medical Service Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone
title_sort national emergency medical service role during the covid-19 pandemic in sierra leone
topic Field Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7545255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32959740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001211
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