An Introduction to Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Medical Director Course
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Medical direction of wilderness and other operational emergency medical services programs.
Within a healthcare system, operational emergency medical services (EMS) programs provide prehospital emergency care to patients in austere and resource-limited settings. Some of these programs are additionally considered to be wilderness EMS programs, a specialized type of operational EMS program, as they primarily function in a wilderness setting (eg, wilderness search and rescue, ski patrols...
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عنوان ژورنال: Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1080-6032
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2014.12.002