The Evaluation of 112 Emergency Ambulance Services Uses in Amasya

Abstract

Emergency ambulance is a very important health care service that enables patients to maintain their life functions and make their immediate transfers to the nearest health care centres in case of life threatening incidence. The remaining 13.113 incidents were given emergency services. While 55% of these incidents patients were taken to hospitals, the reaming was attended in their original places. In this study emergency, medical services have been classified according to age groups. Genders transfer durations, sort of illnesses and types of hospitals in which transfers were made. According to the obtained data the gender distribution in 6375 males (52,39%), 5793 women (47,61%) and in the age groups people of the age of 75-79 became the largest group (9,28%). When the incidents were evaluated according to illness groups, illnesses that are not included in any classification were amounted to 48%, illnesses related to cardiovascular system were amounted to 15%, traumas 6%. When the incidents were considered in respect of time to reach the incident points, it was observed that 52% of the incidents were reached in 0-10 minutes of time. With this study, it has been concluded that as the ambulance demands have progressively been increased, good planning is inevitable in order not to be late in reaching emergency incidents and communication between hospitals and call centre must be in a high level in order to avoid any delays in case of transfers to hospital.