Ambulance

Focus on GVK Emergency Management Research Institute
• 4,33,484 deliveries assisted by EMTs
Type of Emergencies served (top 7 types)
(Rest are miscellaneous including fever etc):
1 Pregnancy related- 35%
2 Vehicular Trauma -12%
3 Acute Abdomen 13%
4 Cardiac -4%
5 Respiratory -4%
6 Suicidal-4%
7 Animal bites-2%
Special Ambulance Services/Projects:
a. Neo Natal Ambulances
Neo Natal ambulances are launched in
order to ensure emergency transfer for
the very sick neonate who require more
specialist treatment at another hospital. It is
primarily launched to reduce the Neonatal
mortality rate. This specialized service is
operated in Tamilnadu and Goa as part of
108 emergency response.
b. Boat Ambulance
In order to improve response efficiency
while also reducing the scene to hospital
time, boat ambulances are operated in areas
which are better accessible by waterways
than roadways. Boat ambulances operate as
an integral part of 108 Emergency Response
services with 5 boat ambulances in Assam
and 1 in Uttarakhand state
c. Advanced Dedicated Ambulances
for Inter-Facility Transfer
The objective of these ambulances are to
provide timely transportation to patients
who require next level of medical treatment
in higher healthcare facility. This facilitates an
integrated and comprehensive health care
management providing high-end ambulatory
transportation for appropriate care.
While 450 dedicated inter facility transfer
ambulances are operated in Assam, special
initiatives in some other states ambulances
have been dedicated for this purpose as
part of 108 Emergency Response Service
c. Motorcycle ambulances: In large
metropolitan cities of Bangalore and
Chennai, 2- wheeler ambulances were
introduced in 2016 to enable quick response
time in road crashes and overcome the
traffic issues.
e. Emergency Stabilization Centre
(ESC)
The role and mission of ESC is to provide
stabilization to Patients/victims in the
Golden hour and ensure safe transport
to the nearby hospital for definitive care.
These ESCs will ideally be located closer to
accident hotspots and also in areas where
facilities to treat medical emergencies are
poor or don’t exist. The choice of location is
supported by authentic data, culled out from
the databases of GVK EMRI.
Research Department activities:
GVK EMRI has invested considerably in
research to ensure that it delivers the
best Emergency Services and establishes
benchmarks in its category. GVK EMRI is
the only Emergency Response Service
provider that conducts clinical Research,
Systems Research and Operational Research
to continually improve their emergency
response services. EMS research aims to:
• Analyze, interpret and estimate the
trends of technology, education systems,
training, standards in the speed and quality
of patient care in emergencies
• Assist in policy making and in integrate
developments, impact policies, and help in
resource deployment
• Transfer knowledge
• Study patient impact.
Unique EMS research:
Online Medical Research (OLMR)
is a process through which we will collect
near real time required data from EMTs
and patient attendees on chief complaints
pertaining to the study on RED Cap
Application provided by Stanford University
School of Medicine.
The GVK EMRI maternal and
neonatal transport system in India: A
mega plan for a mammoth problem:
GVK EMRI has partnered with the
government of Tamil Nadu and deployed
specialized neonatal ambulances to ensure
safe transport of newborns. The safe
transport of sick, vulnerable neonates and
the improvement in survival of transported
neonates over the years advocates the
scaling up of this program to other states,
which would greatly contribute towards
reducing infant and neonatal mortality.
Kumutha J, et al., The GVK EMRI maternal and neonatal
transport system in India: A mega plan for a mammoth
problem, Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine (2015),
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.siny.2015.07.003)
Winter 2016 | Ambulancetoday
To find out more about EMRI please
visit their website:
www.emri.in
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