Continuing with an unconscious, non-breathing patient. You have established that the patient is not breathing normally, 2 or 3 normal breaths every 10 seconds. Medical assistance is now crucial. Either yourself or a bystander should be dialling 999/911 or 112 immediately. Some organizations recommend doing CPR for 1 minute if you are on your own before calling 999, especially in the case of a drowning. We will cover that later. The 80 countries which use the 112 number for emergencies include: • Algeria (mobile phones only) • Andorra • Australia (alongside 000) • Austria (alongside 122 for Fire Department, 133 for Police, and 144 for Emergency Medical Services) • Belarus (alongside 101 for Fire Department, 102 for Police, and 103 for Emergency Medical Services) • Belgium (alongside 100 for Medical emergencies and the Fire Department and 101 for the Police) • Bosnia and Herzegovina (alongside 122 for Police) • Brazil (alongside 193 for Fire Department, 190 for Police, and 192 for Emergency Medical Services) • Bulgaria (former 150 for Medical emergencies, 166 for the Police and 160 for the Fire Department are redirected to 112 services) • Canada (redirects to 911 on GSM mobile phone networks) • Colombia (police only) • Costa Rica (alongside 911, both function identically) • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic (alongside 155 for Hospital Ambulance, 158 for Police and 150 for Fire Department) • Denmark (including Greenland, Faroe Islands). (Denmark also uses 114 for Police) • Dominican Republic (alongside 911, both function identically) • East Timor • Egypt • Estonia (alongside 110 for Police) • Finland (including Åland) • France (alongside 15 for Medical Emergency, 17 for Law Enforcement and 18 for Fire & Rescue) • Germany (alongside 110 for Police) • Gibraltar • Georgia • Greece (alongside 100 for the police, 108 for port police, 166 for medical emergencies and 199 for the fire service) • Hong Kong (Redirects to 999 on mobile phone networks) • Hungary • Iceland • India (police only) • Indonesia (mobile only, police only) • Iran (redirects to 110 on GSM mobile phone networks) • Ireland (alongside 999) • Israel (mobile phones only, alongside 100 for police, 101 for medical emergency and 102 for fire service) • Italy (Carabinieri only, they can forward the call to other emergency services) • Jordan (alongside 911, both function identically) • Kazakhstan • Kuwait • Latvia • Lebanon (police only) • Liechtenstein (Emergency Services) • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Macau (alongside 999) • Macedonia (alongside 192 for Police, 193 for Fire Department, 194 for Emergency Medical Care) • Malta • Malaysia (redirects to 999 on mobile phone networks) • Moldova (redirects to 902 only on cellphone networks) • Monaco • Montenegro (alongside 122 for Police, 123 for Fire Department and 124 for Emergency Medical Care) • Netherlands (0900-8844 is the non-emergency number for any local police department) • New Zealand (redirects to 111) • Norway (police only, 110 for the fire department and 113 for emergency medical care. 02800 is the non-emergency number for any local police department) • Panama (alongside 911, both function identically) • Pakistan (mobile phones only) • Poland (alongside 999 for emergency medical care, 998 for fire service, and 997 for local police; full functionality planned for 2014) • Portugal (redirects to Emergency Call Center, 117 is used for reporting Fire related incidents, e.g. Forest Fire (main application)) • Romania • Russia • Rwanda (police only) • San Marino (police only) • Serbia (alongside 192 for police, 193 for fire department, and 194 for emergency medical care) • Slovakia (alongside 155 for hospital ambulance, 158 for police and 150 for fire department) • Slovenia (alongside 113 for police) • South Africa (mobile phones only) • South Korea (police only) • Spain (alongside 091 for Police, 061 for hospital ambulance and 062 for Guardia Civil) • Sri Lanka (police only) • Sweden (alongside 114 14 for non-emergency calls to the police) • Switzerland (alongside 117 for Police, 144 for Hospital Ambulance and 118 for Fire Department) • Syria (police only) • Taiwan (Mobile phones only. Press "0" for police(110), press "9" for fire department(119).) • Turkey (ambulance only; a pilot project is under way which will enable the usage of the number for all emergency calls) • Ukraine (Pilot project in Kharkiv and Lviv; Kiev and Donetsk to be covered in 2012 with nationwide coverage afterwards)[8][9][10] • United Arab Emirates (police only) • United Kingdom (alongside 999, both numbers function identically) • United States (Redirects to 9-1-1 on GSM mobile phone networks only; several states implement cellphone-only alternate numbers for highway emergencies[11]) • Vanuatu • Vatican City (Gendarmerie only) • Zambia (mobile phones only) • Zimbabwe
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:08:36 +0000
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