Prehospital emergency medicine: the series

Palliative Care and Prehospital Emergency Medicine

Palliative care, which is intended to keep patients at home as long as possible, is increasingly proposed for patients who live at home, with their family, or in retirement homes. Although their condition is expected to have a lethal evolution, the patients—or more often their families or entourages—are sometimes confronted with sudden situations of respiratory distress, convulsions, hemorrhage...

Some Ethical Issues in Prehospital Emergency Medicine

Prehospital emergency medical care has many challenges including unpredictable patient profiles, emergency conditions, and administration of care in a non-medical area. Many conflicts occur in a prehospital setting that require ethical decisions to be made. An overview of the some of ethical issues in prehospital emergency care settings is given in this article. Ethical aspects of prehospital e...

Prevalence and management of acute pain in prehospital emergency medicine.

BACKGROUND Less is known about the prevalence of pain in prehospital emergency medicine than about pain in the emergency department. Objectives. To estimate the prehospital prevalence of pain and to identify the factors associated with oligoanalgesia. METHODS The mobile intensive care units of the emergency services of a Paris suburb conducted this prospective study. All consecutive patients ...

Prehospital ultrasound in emergency medicine: incidence, feasibility, indications and diagnoses.

BACKGROUND Sonography is an established diagnostic procedure in hospitals, but is not routinely used in prehospital emergency medicine. Several studies have addressed the use of ultrasound during helicopter flights and in emergency rooms, few in prehospital settings, but most focused on abdominal blunt trauma. Several case reports describe crucial decisions distinguished by ultrasound. METHOD...

Incorporating prehospital care into emergency medicine residency training.