Although there are no clinical practice guidelines, the Gothenburg and Halland regions do use a prehospital triage system called the medical emergency...
A number of simulation facilities, programmes, and research projects have recently emerged or are taking place in Asia and Africa.
In most Canadian emergency medical services (EMS) systems, clinical protocols or medical directives direct paramedic care. EMS medical directors...
The response to mental health emergencies in the community often presents unique and complex challenges for paramedics. This is often a result of the...
The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) itself was created in 1983 by three doctors with the mission statement to ‘advance healthcare, research, and...
Guillaume Alinier is currently the simulation programme co-ordinator for the Sidra Medical and Research Center in Qatar where he is involved in the...
Heat-related illness represents a continuum of disorders from minor syndromes such as heat cramps, heat syncope, and heat exhaustion to the severely...
In Australia, mental health legislation varies from each state and territory, and while thes e laws promote the same fundamental principles,...
South Africa is a developing country with an upper-middle-income and advanced emerging market economy (The World Bank, 2010; FTSE, 2010). In 2009,...
Accurate and reliable data plays an important role in assessing RTI prevention and control by providing burden estimates, building political will, and...
We used a two-step approach to explore our research question. First, expert interviews were taken to identify current problems of the EMS-Innsbruck...
Each country has different names for members of prehospital EMS. We have classified and gathered them according to their skills. The EMS models, crews...
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