Establishing a rural emergency medical retrieval service

Establishing a rural Emergency Medical Retrieval Service.

In 2004 the Argyll and Clyde health board established the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service to support its rural community hospitals. This article describes both why the service was established and its aims. This service covers a geographically extensive area, with approximately 85,000 people living in remote locations. Rural general practitioners in six community hospitals provide initial pa...

A ride to care--a non-emergency medical transportation service in rural British Columbia.

INTRODUCTION Access to healthcare services is a chronic problem for rural communities throughout the world. The vast geography of Canada has exacerbated the problem for many northern and remote communities that are hundreds of kilometers away from healthcare centers. As a policy response to this problem, in 2006 the Northern Health Authority of the province of British Columbia (BC) initiated 'C...

Violence Against Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service Personnel in Guilan Province, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study

Retrieval Rapid Emergency Medical Score in retrieval medicine.

OBJECTIVE Prognostic models are commonly used in the clinical setting. The objective of the study is to evaluate the prognostic accuracy of the Rapid Emergency Medical Score (REMS) or alternate models. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of critical care patients who underwent retrieval service transfer to an ICU in a single state-wide service in Victoria, Australia. All patients aged 18 yea...

Considerations in establishing emergency medical services response time goals.

• Medical directors should have the authority to lead the establishment of response interval performance standards and possess the resources needed to monitor response interval data. • The dispatch process should be carefully analyzed and streamlined. Calls should be prioritized based on severity and response interval performance standards established for emergent, urgent, and nonurgent complai...