Prehospital System
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Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin
The job of providing emergency medical services, or EMS, often resembles medical detective work, with limited clues, no specialists to consult, and very little, if any, of the sophisticated equipment available to doctors and nurses. But even though emergency medics—a catchall term used throughout this story for paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and emergency medical responders—handle tens of millions of calls in the United States each year and make life-altering decisions for their patients every day, they remain all but excluded from institutional medicine. “You’re basically like a glorified taxi,” says Sarayna McGuire, a Mayo Clinic emergency physician who has studied pre-hospital…
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A New First Responder: How Drones May Revolutionize Healthcare
Without a doubt, the use of drone technology in the realm of healthcare services is a promising venture. However, organizations and regulatory leaders will need to ensure the viability, scalability, and efficiency of this technology, and reconcile these aspects with the most crucial elements of healthcare: patient safety, privacy, and autonomy.
In the future your ambulance could be driverless
With driverless vehicles already on the road, some governments are looking into the possibility of driverless ambulances. Driverless ambulances and other technology could take some of the strain off the emergency services, freeing paramedics to deal with high-risk patients where each minute waiting for treatment significantly reduces a patient’s chance of surviving.
Paramedics Aren't Just for Emergencies
Home visits for lab tests, IV medications and hospital follow-up.
The Revolution in EMS Care
Thanks to new technology, new life-saving techniques and new missions, ambulance crews are far from the ‘horizontal taxicabs’ they once were.
Three Simple Interventions Increase Survival After A Severe Head Injury, Study Finds
Focusing on adherence to these 3 simple interventions (by paramedics) demonstrated clear efficacy by doubling the survival rate of severe victims of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and tripling the survival rate in those who required a breathing tube to secure their airway (intubation).
Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin
The misperception that paramedics are merely ambulance drivers is everyone’s problem.
Research challenges in prehospital care: the need for a simulation-based prehospital research laboratory
Prehospital care has changed rapidly during the last couple of decades. It has quickly transformed from a transport organization to an integrated part of the healthcare system. This fast transition poses major challenges to the organizations
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