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  2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...

  3. Enhanced 911 - Wikipedia

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    Enhanced 911. Enhanced 911 ( E-911 or E911) is a system used in North America to automatically provide the caller's location to 911 dispatchers. 911 is the universal emergency telephone number in the region. In the European Union, a similar system exists known as E112 (where 112 is the emergency access number) and known as eCall when called by ...

  4. Hospital emergency codes - Wikipedia

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    Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.

  5. Medical Priority Dispatch System - Wikipedia

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    The Medical Priority Dispatch System ( MPDS ), sometimes referred to as the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System ( AMPDS) is a unified system used to dispatch appropriate aid to medical emergencies including systematized caller interrogation and pre-arrival instructions. Priority Dispatch Corporation is licensed to design and publish MPDS ...

  6. American Medical Response - Wikipedia

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    29,000. Parent. Global Medical Response. Website. www .amr .net. American Medical Response, Inc. ( AMR) is a private ambulance company in the United States that provides and manages emergency medical services, non-emergency and managed transportation, rotary and fixed-wing air ambulance services, and disaster response across the United States. [2]

  7. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This medical services headquarters in Darien, Connecticut has an emergency vehicle outside ready to respond immediately in case of need. In the United States, emergency medical services (EMS) provide out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care for those in need. They are regulated at the most basic level by the ...

  8. List of emergency telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Text phone – 0800 81 12; Non-emergency police – 0900 88 44[a]or 0343 578 844;[66]Non-emergency police (text phone) – 0900 18 44; Suicide prevention – 113; Animal emergency – 144; Child abuse – 0900 123 12 30;[a]Anti-bullying hotline – 0800 90 50. North Macedonia. 192or 112[b] 194or 112[b]

  9. Current Procedural Terminology - Wikipedia

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    The Current Procedural Terminology ( CPT) code set is a procedural code set developed by the American Medical Association (AMA). It is maintained by the CPT Editorial Panel. [ 1] The CPT code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among ...