Analysis of the response time indicator of the emergency mobile care service (SAMU)

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the response time indicator of the mobile emergency care service, referring to calls for clinical and traumatic injuries that resulted in pre-hospital care and to evaluate the response time indicator of the team's displacement to the place of occurrence and the displacement time to the in-hospital service. Method: it concerned a longitudinal and retrospective field research strategy, in which data referring to the response time spent in each phase of the attendance of occurrences were analyzed, consisting of 336 occurrence records in the period from January to December 2019 The research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Faculdade Integral Diferencial under number CAAE: 27613219.1.0000.5211 and opinion number 3,948,907. Results: it was evidenced that the response time of the analyzed service has an average of 46.18 minutes for the attendance of rural calls, and 14.74 minutes for the rural area. Conclusion: the response time under analysis goes beyond the values ​​accepted as ideal.