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Table 4 Area status details (%)

From: Situational awareness and information flow in prehospital emergency medical care from the perspective of paramedic field supervisors: a scenario-based study

Area status

Information needed (n = 37)

%

Information delivered (n = 14)

%

Available EMS units (number, type, location)

24

PFS available if needed

22

Availability of EMS doctor

22

Action plan to EMD how to manage urgent and non-urgent missions

22

Status of missions in the area

19

EMD to stop non-urgent missions for a moment

14

Location of occupied units

11

Info to rescue service that most probably first response missions will increase

7

Number of non-urgent missions

8

EMD to take care of area status

7

Possibility to have EMS units from neighbour town

8

EMD to inform EMS doctor about the shooting case

7

Possibility to create ad hoc EMS units

5

EMD to temporarily re-locate the EMS units to ensure the coverage in the area

7

Are missions connected?

3

EMD can deactivate ad hoc EMS units

7

  

PFS not available

7