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Suspected Labour as a Reason for Emergency Medical Services Team Interventions in Poland—A Retrospective Analysis

The purpose of this study was to present the characteristics of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) team responses to calls regarding suspected labour in out-of-hospital settings in Poland. We performed a retrospective analysis of EMS team interventions in cases of suspected onset of labour outside a h...

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Autores principales: Rzońca, Ewa, Bień, Agnieszka, Wejnarski, Arkadiusz, Gotlib, Joanna, Bączek, Grażyna, Gałązkowski, Robert, Rzońca, Patryk
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8775165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35052213
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010049
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author Rzońca, Ewa
Bień, Agnieszka
Wejnarski, Arkadiusz
Gotlib, Joanna
Bączek, Grażyna
Gałązkowski, Robert
Rzońca, Patryk
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Bień, Agnieszka
Wejnarski, Arkadiusz
Gotlib, Joanna
Bączek, Grażyna
Gałązkowski, Robert
Rzońca, Patryk
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description The purpose of this study was to present the characteristics of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) team responses to calls regarding suspected labour in out-of-hospital settings in Poland. We performed a retrospective analysis of EMS team interventions in cases of suspected onset of labour outside a hospital setting. The analysis included 12,816 EMS team responses to calls regarding women in suspected labour in the period between January 2018 and December 2019. The mean age of the patients studied was 28.24 years (SD = 6.47). The majority of patients were at term (76.36%) and in their second pregnancy (29.96%). EMS teams were most often dispatched in the summer (25.95%) and in urban areas (63.26%). Most EMS teams were basic (68.99%) and interventions most often took place between 19:00 and 06:59 (63.14%). Significant differences were observed between preterm and term pregnant women attended by EMS teams in terms of variables such as the age of the patient, number of previous labours, history of miscarriage, presence of vaginal bleeding, time of year, location of call, type and composition of EMS team dispatched, urgency code and time of call, duration of intervention, selected emergency medical procedures performed and test results.
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spelling pubmed-87751652022-01-21 Suspected Labour as a Reason for Emergency Medical Services Team Interventions in Poland—A Retrospective Analysis Rzońca, Ewa Bień, Agnieszka Wejnarski, Arkadiusz Gotlib, Joanna Bączek, Grażyna Gałązkowski, Robert Rzońca, Patryk Healthcare (Basel) Article The purpose of this study was to present the characteristics of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) team responses to calls regarding suspected labour in out-of-hospital settings in Poland. We performed a retrospective analysis of EMS team interventions in cases of suspected onset of labour outside a hospital setting. The analysis included 12,816 EMS team responses to calls regarding women in suspected labour in the period between January 2018 and December 2019. The mean age of the patients studied was 28.24 years (SD = 6.47). The majority of patients were at term (76.36%) and in their second pregnancy (29.96%). EMS teams were most often dispatched in the summer (25.95%) and in urban areas (63.26%). Most EMS teams were basic (68.99%) and interventions most often took place between 19:00 and 06:59 (63.14%). Significant differences were observed between preterm and term pregnant women attended by EMS teams in terms of variables such as the age of the patient, number of previous labours, history of miscarriage, presence of vaginal bleeding, time of year, location of call, type and composition of EMS team dispatched, urgency code and time of call, duration of intervention, selected emergency medical procedures performed and test results. MDPI 2021-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8775165/ /pubmed/35052213 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010049 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gałązkowski, Robert
Rzońca, Patryk
Suspected Labour as a Reason for Emergency Medical Services Team Interventions in Poland—A Retrospective Analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8775165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35052213
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010049
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