Background
The rising importance of emergency systems and emergency medical care on the global stage
Significance for Armenia
Data for the Republic of Armenia
Ischemic heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, and cardiac arrest
Current care modalities
Acute stroke
Current care modalities
Road traffic crashes: fatalities and injuries
Road traffic crash fatalities by region per 100,000 population (2016) | |
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World | 18.2 |
Africa | 26.6 |
Southeast Asia | 20.7 |
Eastern Mediterranean | 18.0 |
Western Pacific | 16.9 |
Americas | 15.6 |
Europe | 9.0 |
Former Soviet Republics | 13.1 |
Eurasia | 18.0 |
Russia | 18.0 |
Central Asia | 15.4 |
Tajikistan | 18.1 |
Kazakhstan | 17.6 |
Kyrgyzstan | 15.4 |
Turkmenistan | 14.5 |
Uzbekistan | 11.5 |
Southern Caucasus | 13.7 |
Armenia | 17.1 |
Georgia | 15.3 |
Azerbaijan | 8.7 |
Eastern Europe | 10.7 |
Ukraine | 13.7 |
Moldovaa | 9.7 |
Belarus | 8.9 |
Baltic States | 7.9 |
Latvia | 9.3 |
Lithuania | 8.0 |
Estonia | 6.3 |
Considerations for disaster preparedness
Current state of emergency care in the Republic of Armenia
The transition
Out-of-hospital and pre-hospital emergency care
Models of emergency care systems
Time metrics | Reported time range (min)a | Ideal time (min) |
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Time to dispatch | 2–6 | < 2 |
Time to arrival on scene | 7–12 | < 8 |
Time on scene | 60–75 | < 30 |
Transport time to hospital | 10–15 | 10–15 |
Total time | 79–108b | < 50 |
2018 | 2019 | ||||
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n | (%) | n | (%) | ||
Armenia | Total ambulance activations | 485,555 | 521,039 | ||
Regions | Total ambulance activations | 237,729 | 258,598 | ||
Unintentional and intentional injury activations in regions | 12 226 | (5.1%) | 10 789 | (4.2%) | |
Yerevan | Total ambulance activations | 247,826 | 262,441 | ||
Cardiac activations | 54 423 | (21.9%) | 48 593 | (18.5%) | |
Stroke activations | 5 606 | (2.2%) | 5 930 | (2.3%) | |
Unintentional and intentional injury activations | 11 510 | (4.6%) | 12 802 | (4.9%) | |
Unintentional and intentional injury activations with hospitalization | 10 290 | (89.4%)a | 12 594 | (98.3%)a | |
Total activations | 54 137 | (21.8%) | 61 220 | (23.3%) |