Emergency Medical Services: Behavioral and Planning Perspectives

The Regionalization of Emergency Medical Services: a Strategy for Planning

The Regionalization of Emergency Medical Services: A Strategy for Planning and Intervention Shelley F. Bernstein E. Michael Paul Thomas Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning on May 23, 1975, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degreesof Bachelor of Science in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Master of City Planning. In response to increasing in...

Failing emergency medical services.

Failing emergency medical services To the Editor: I refer to the scientific letter entitled ‘Emergency centres lack defibrillator knowledge’.1 I am a recently retired UK accident and emergency consultant who is now attempting to plough back knowledge gained in the discipline of emergency medicine (EM) and trauma to peripheral hospitals in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) under the umbre...

Emergency medical services systems.

Overall, our view of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is too constrained and limits services that could be provided. Some time ago, a friend remarked that EMS was unrelated to Disaster Medicine and, in fact, advised that the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and this journal (PDM) needed to concentrate either on Disaster Medicine OR EMS. More recently, this same frie...

Physician medical direction of emergency medical services.

Emergency medical services (EMS) bring the practice of emergency medicine directly to the homes of patients. Physician guidance of system development and provider practice can enhance the quality of care. This article provides an overview of issues in the development of EMS system oversight in the United States in general, and in Rhode Island.

Toronto Emergency Medical Services and SARS