BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of emergency calls, shortages of Emergency Medical Service (EMS), physicians, prolonged emergency response times and regionally different quality of treatment by EMS physicians require improvement of this system. Telemedical solutions have been shown to be beneficial in different emergency projects, focused on specific disease patterns. Our previous pilot studies h...

OBJECTIVE Emergency medical services (EMS) agencies may be an underutilized resource for provision of preventive health services. This study sought to demonstrate the feasibility for EMS agencies to provide influenza immunizations. METHODS This prospective, observational cohort study was conducted with urban, suburban, and rural EMS agencies that volunteered to participate. EMS managers and p...

introduction : pre-hospital emergency systems provide service by franco-german and anglo american models. this study was carried out to compare the iranian emergency medical service (ems) with the two models regarding timing and equipment. methods : in this cross sectional study, response time, scene time, and transport time to hospital as well as ambulance equipment of five hundred thousand te...

background: there is no clear data on the adherence of emergency medical services (ems) paramedics and hospital staff rather than those working in poisoning centers to the guidelines for managing acutely poisoned patients in developing countries. methods: during a 6-month period, all ems-managed poisoned patients along with those initially managed in a non-poisoning center before being referred...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of the mode of transportation of trauma patients (emergency medical service [EMS] vs. non-EMS) on their final clinical outcome in terms of mortality and length of hospital stay. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective study included all patients who were involved in motor vehicle crashes, and who were transferred immediately to an emergency department of a trauma ...

BACKGROUND Prehospital delays in receiving emergency care for suspected stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) patients have significant impacts on health outcomes. Use of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has been shown to reduce these delays. However, disparities in EMS transport delays are thought to exist. Therefore the objective of this study was to investigate and identify disparities in EM...

The National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) believes that the relief of pain and suffering of patients must be a priority for every emergency medical services (EMS) system. Adequate analgesia is an important step in achieving this goal. NAEMSP believes that every EMS system should have a clinical care protocol to address prehospital pain management. Adequate training and education of pr...

Current System of Care Emergency Medical Services System Design Prehospital EMS systems have 3 major components: emergency medical dispatch, public safety (fire and law enforcement) first response, and EMS ambulance response. Each of these operates within a broader emergency care system, which includes acute care facilities and regionalized healthcare services. In most states, an EMS regulatory...

Managers implement several Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices to improve sustainability and economic performance, such as environmental management systems (EMS), eco-design (ED), source reduction (SR) attending external (EEM) requirements; however, the relationship among them requires a deep study. This paper reports case of Mexican maquiladora industry, analyzing main relationships...