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Emergency Medical Services in China
Academic Emergency Medicine, 1999AbstractThe objective of this article is to identify and describe Chinese emergency medical services (EMS) components. Chinese EMS system development began in the 1980s with “importing” of EMS principles from other systems. China is now attempting to unify these principles. Chinese EMS systems are absent in most rural areas. Urban ambulance dispatch or
T L, Thomas, K J, Clem
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Volunteers in Emergency Medical Service
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1955WVHo will help the physicians and nurses care for the injured persons after a community has been attacked with a hydrogen or atom bomb? This was the question that those planning for Medical Civil Defense of the New York State Department of Health asked themselves.
E, OWENS, M, SCHAEFER
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Emergency Medical Services in Connecticut
Prehospital Emergency Care, 2005This article describes emergency medical services (EMS) systems in Connecticut, beginning with a historical perspective. The discussion of statewide oversight of the EMS system includes legislative and regulatory mandates as well as recent external reviews of the system. Medical oversight of EMS care and services is provided by sponsor hospitals rather
Carin M, Van Gelder +2 more
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The American Journal of Medicine, 1997
Prehospital emergency medical service personnel are at occupational risk of exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Current protections from blood-borne pathogens are not adequate for all firefighters and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel.
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Prehospital emergency medical service personnel are at occupational risk of exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Current protections from blood-borne pathogens are not adequate for all firefighters and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel.
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Emergency medical services in Zimbabwe
Resuscitation, 2005Emergency medical services in Zimbabwe are of a very variable standard, and exist in many forms: *Reasonably well-developed urban emergency medical services systems mixed with very poorly resourced and under-developed rural services. *Very high patient workloads, with severely ill medical patients and a large proportion of major trauma and multiple ...
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Emergency medical services: Brazil
Resuscitation, 2006Emergency medical services in Brazil have been created to offer first aid, primary medical treatment, basic life support, stabilization and rapid transfer to the closest appropriate hospital and advanced life support. Pre-hospital emergency care in Brazil is divided into permanent and mobile services.
Sergio, Timerman +3 more
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Emergency Medical Services, 1979
New England Journal of Medicine, 1979Improved patient care can result from changes in the organization and delivery of care as well as from new drugs and surgical techniques.
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Wilderness emergency medical services
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2004Emergency medical service providers are increasingly being asked to respond to unfamiliar environments. The challenges encountered have spurred the development of courses designed to enhance the rescuer's knowledge about wilderness medical topics and how to work and travel safely in a hitherto unfamiliar environment.
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The Emergency Medical Service and the Future
BMJ, 1941The threatening clouds disappeared and we for a time relaxed, but the memory of those days had left a bitter taste in the mouth, and the medical profession stirred uneasily at the thought of what might have been, and what perhaps was to come. As the months passed no signs could be seen of any attempt to deal with the casualty problem on the part of ...
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Teamwork in emergency medical services
Air Medical Journal, 1999Emergency medical care is delivered by highly trained and motivated individuals working in groups. In some cases, these groups function as teams, but their teamwork has been poorly studied and rarely is the result of focused training. Medical outcome traditionally is described using patient parameters and often is related to the economics of care ...
K A, Williams, W D, Rose, R, Simon
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