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HOSPITAL ON STANDBY 2024

– TRAUMA INCIDENTS

Hospital on Standby is a term used when the attending below. These figures give some context in relation
Paramedics determine the patient may need a to the amount of activity that DFB may expect when
resuscitation team to manage the patient on arrival interacting with the Trauma Network when it becomes
at the emergency department and radio a pre-alert operational. All Dublin Hospitals have a “Hip Fracture
message to control. Pathway” and request a pre-alert message for these
patients. This group of patients are generally assigned
The following data relates to pre-alert messages to the chief complaint of “Falls”. As a result, the number
request the hospital emergency department to be on of pre-alerts in the “Falls” category include patient with
standby for incidents which were originally coded hip fractures.
under the chief complaint headings in the table

HOSPITAL ON STANDBY 2024 – TRAUMA - CHIEF COMPLAINT

Tramuatic Injuries 125 1
112
Traffic/Transportation 39
Incidents
129
Stab/Gunshot/Penetrating
Trauma 703

Inaccessible/Other
Entrapments

Haemorrhage/Laceration
Trauma

Falls

Drowning/Near Drowning 4

Burns/Explosion 23

Assault 58

Animal Bite/Attack 1

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800

DUBLIN FIRE BRIGADE
EMS INTERVENTIONS

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

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