INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Practicing emergency medicine in the prehospital setting is rife with opportunities, special considerations, and perils not encountered routinely in the hospital emergency department. EMS physicians transport…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Traditional roles for the physician in EMS have involved quality improvement, protocol development, and provider education. In general, physicians do not typically provide routine EMS care…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Human resources (HR) deal with the hiring, training, compensating, managing, and unfortunately, at times the disciplining or terminating of employees. Human resources managers are expected to…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Computer-aided dispatch (CAD), electronic patient care records (ePCR), patient satisfaction surveys, billing systems, medical devices, etc as data collection have become more prevalent in EMS agencies,…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The growing air medical transport sector represents a highly visible concentration of resources. A 2007 publication estimated that in the United States, 753 helicopters (and 150…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen One of the biggest challenges involved in providing superior prehospital care is obtaining the appropriate funding to pay for it. Funding is needed for salaries, equipment,…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Due to the difficulty in addressing the ethics and science of determining a patient’s ability to participate in important medical decision making, it is important to…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Emergency medical services (EMS) systems were developed in the early 1970s when federal resources were made available to provide for creation of the prehospital system infrastructure.1…