INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Emergency medicine service (EMS) personnel have opportunities to deploy in a variety of settings from urban international disaster response to sustained humanitarian missions for developing areas…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Mass gathering medical care generally refers to the organized care provided for groups of at least 1000 people, including both spectators and participants, although some authors…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Field surgical procedures are for the most part relatively uncommon with few cases reported and published. Barriers to reporting likely include a preponderance of poor or…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Babies have been born for millions of years without EMS intervention. This is one “emergency” that almost always turns out well. The CDC reported that, in…
Print Section Listen Pain is the most common emergency complaint. The World Health Organization supports optimal pain treatment as a fundamental human right (http://who.int.easyaccess2.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/mediacetre/news/notes/2007/np31/en/). Several prehospital studies have shown inadequate…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Musculoskeletal trauma is frequently encountered in the prehospital setting. In 2007, extremity injuries accounted for over 14 million emergency department visits within the United States.1 Injuries…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen This chapter will discuss the role of the EMS physician in the treatment of acute wounds and hemorrhage. As a first responder, a physician should be…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The daily operations of EMS systems focus on providing care and transport to individual patients with (usually) unlimited resources. This approach allows prehospital providers to attempt…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Trauma and injury account for 182, 479 deaths in 2007, with approximately 31,224 due to penetrating injuries, that is, firearms, and 65,474 secondary to blunt mechanisms,…
