ER-style emergency medical systems

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...

Intelligent scheduling for emergency room(ER) personnel to improve productivity

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

Patient restraint in emergency medical services systems.

Transport and Emergency Medical Response Systems

Traffic injuries cause a heavy burden on society in most motorized countries. Pre-hospital and hospital trauma care may have a potential to reduce these losses. By tradition the pre-hospital ambulance care has not until the last decades been integrated in the medical sector organization in Sweden. Nowadays it is regarded as the extended arm of trauma care. Improved qualification level to Regist...

Transport and Emergency Medical Response Systems

Over the last 30-40 years dramatic improvements have been seen in the development of new methods for saving the lives of those involved in traffic crashes. This ranges from improvements in emergency medical response systems to advanced trauma care procedures to specific surgical intervention techniques. This paper reviews the evidence for these improvements as documented in the safety and medic...