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HOSPITAL ON STANDBY 2023 – TRAUMA INCIDENTS

Hospital on Standby is a term used when the request the hospital emergency department to be
attending Paramedics determine the patient may on standby for incidents which were originally coded
need a resuscitation team to manage the patient on under the chief complaint headings in the table
arrival at the emergency department and radio a pre- below. These figures give some context in relation
alert message to control. to the amount of activity that DFB may expect
when interacting with the Trauma Network when it
The following data relates to pre-alert messages to becomes operational.

HOSPITAL ON STANDBY 2022 – TRAUMA - CHIEF COMPLAINT

Traumatic Injuries 119

Traffic/Transportation Incidents 104

Stab/Gunshot/Penetrating Trauma 44

Inaccessible/Other Entrapments 2

Haemorrhage/Laceration Trauma 126

Falls 633
600 700
Drowning/Near Drowning 2

Burns/Explosion 23

Assault 61

Animal Bite / Attack 6

100 200 300 400 500

DUBLIN FIRE BRIGADE 33
EMS INTERVENTIONS

Each year DFB personnel, through their Fire based EMS
interventions are successful in many cases, leading to several
of our citizens still being alive and well, when their incidents
and prognosis predicted otherwise. On many occasions cards
are received, well wishes are posted on social media and visits
are made to stations to say thank you. This is DFB’s greatest
performance metric and greatest reward.

ANNUAL REPORT 2023 Tuarascáil Bhliantúil 2023