Emergency medical services workflow

Hi

I’m currently exploring openEHR for Emergency Medical Services modelling, specifically trying to represent something similar to NEMSIS-style EMS workflows (911 call → dispatch → on-scene care → transport → ED handover).

Does anyone know of something like this already being available somewhere? Like a national EMS implementation model in openEHR or a template for emergency workflow?

My fallback idea is to structure each step of the process as a COMPOSITION.encounter with additional procedural things in context (with a unique identifier linking them all together, suitable to EpisodeOfCare FHIR Identifier), then adding clinical data observed within the process in there (vital signs, problems, .. and procedures, medications for what’s happened). And again, using ACTION.procedure for prehospital interventions like CPR, intubation which I couldn’t find a dedicated archetype for.

Is this generally an ok direction to pursue further (granted the answer to my initial question is that nothing exists yet)?

Thanks

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