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The role of the medical operations center, a provider of emergency medical services
JIRKŮ, Tomáš
Bachelor's thesis deals with the medical operating center and its activities. A lot of people have no idea what a medical operating centre actually is. My knowledge about it was also scarce before the beginning of my studies. Therefore I would like to outline the problems, tasks and also the demanding character of the work of operators. That is why this thesis is aimed at examining the tasks of the medical operating centre. Everybody probably knows the term medical rescue service and imagines immediately a yellow vehicle with reflective strips and blue lights. Hardly anybody realizes, however, that the medical rescue service needs the medical operating centre to be functional. It may be also called a control centre. This centre is an inseparable part of the medical service and also of the integrated rescue system. Specialized medical workers, called operators or controllers, are employed here. These workers, among others, receive continuously emergency calls, evaluate them and pass them on to exit groups, and, last but not least, assist the caller with giving first aid. All these problems are the subject of the theoretical part of the thesis. Two research issues were determined for the purpose of the research part of the thesis. The first one deals with all tasks ordered by legislation being used by the operating centre and the second research issue is aimed at the problems of urgent basic life support assisted by phone, namely if this basic life support assisted by phone is utilized always when unconsciousness is indicated. These issues were dealt with by means of the qualitative research method consisting in the secondary data analysis. The research set constituted the regional operating centre of the South Moravian Region. Specifically, documentation of emergency medical services was used operator record and audio record of emergency call. This documentation is a part of each emergency call. By means of the secondary analysis the data from 20 emergency calls were obtained. Emergency calls were chosen by simple random choice. The sample of these 20 emergency calls was chosen from the period of the year 2014. Because of protection of personal data no names are given in the thesis, only the initials. For the same reason no actual addresses are used in the research. In the discussion there are given all tasks ordered by legislation and recommended procedures from professional sources. This information is subsequently compared with the obtained data. The results in the case of the first research issue indicated that some tasks ordered by legislation are not used too often. Some tasks within the framework of the small sample being examined are not used at all and, on the contrary, they are used in the receiving of each emergency call. The tasks that were not used at all were three altogether. The results in the case of the second research issue demonstrated that indication of unconsciousness is not always necessarily the reason for using urgent basic life support assisted by phone. It is important that also other aspects are taken into account, not only consciousness of the patient. Of ten emergency calls concerning unconsciousness being examined this urgent basic life support assisted by phone was used in five of them. It was found out that utilization of the medical operations center tasks is individual in each emergency call. From the point of view of the total activity of the centre it could be declared, however, that the centre uses most of the tasks ordered by legislation. This bachelor's thesis can be used as a material extending the knowledge of both non-professional public and medical personnel concerning the activities of medical operating centre. It can be a stepping stone for further research concerning medical operations center.
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