Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System
Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System ( abbreviated AMPDS ) denotes a protocol for standardized recording of emergency calls to emergency officials. In a polling scheme consisting of 20 questions that can be answered with yes or no usually, the severity of a medical emergency is determined and decided the presence of a life-threatening situation.
The questions range from where exactly has the emergency? If the person concerned about fully awake? until the person is bleeding heavily? Once the existence of an emergency is detected, the respective dispatcher alerted the adequate life-saving equipment and decide the further course, whether the additional deployment of an emergency doctor to the scene is necessary. The AMPDS allows a standardized alerting of emergency services and does not release the dispatcher of any legal rights of the patient and from a third party, as the entire voice traffic as well as any decision is well documented. Another significant advantage of AMPDS is that for a variety of different emergencies (traffic accidents, violence, dangerous accidents, births, etc ) Safety, first aid instructions are stored up to telephone instructions birth and resuscitation instructions.
The protocols developed by the U.S. National Academy of Emergency Services Association Emergency Medical Dispatch, adapted to different European languages and can be applied in the form of index cards or software.
A problem with AMPDS is that it is an American system and thus in Europe is due to a different rescue system very poorly applicable. Around the query schema contains no temporal parameters that make it possible to delimit a chronic condition characterized by an acute situation. Moreover, the translations from the U.S. are partially ambiguous or unnecessarily complicated, which can lead to misunderstanding of the control center staff to difficulties in the precise application and in the emergency detectors. AMPDS is now used by a large number of control centers in Europe. For example, of the Lower Austrian control center ( emergency Lower Austria), the national control center of the Carinthian Red Cross, the control center Tyrol or partly in Vienna Ambulance Association ( Vienna Ambulance, ASBÖ, WCC). In the St. John's Ambulance Aid Vienna, but the system is not used.