Effects of extreme temperatures, fine particles and ozone on hourly ambulance dispatches.
Published
October 20, 2020
Journal
The Science of the total environment
PICOID
2e4bef40
DOI
Citations
9
Keywords
Ambulance dispatches, Particulate matter, ozone, Temperature
Copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Patients/Population/Participants
Taiwan
Intervention
ambulance dispatches
Comparison
ambient conditions
Outcome
risk of ambulance dispatches
Abstract
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There is a dearth of research on the hourly risk of ambulance dispatches with respect to ambient conditions. We evaluated hourly relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) of ambulance dispatches in Taiwan to treat respiratory distress, coma and unconsciousness, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), from 2006 to 2015. We considered island-wide ambient temperatures, fine particulate matter (PM