Prehospital care Prehospital care Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) is a detailed medical protocol for the provision of lifesaving cardiac care in settings ranging from the pre-hospital environment to the hospital setting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advanced cardiac life support"
ARCH Air Medical Service, Inc. is an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) that provides critical care air ambulance service in Missouri, Illinois and the surrounding regions. With over 250 air medical programs in the nation, ARCH Air Medical Service was the twelfth program in the nation to offer air air ambulance service when it began offering quality patient care in March of 1979. Transporting approximately 4,200 patients per year by rotorwing, ARCH Aircraft are staffed by a pilot, nurse and paramedic. Flights are 80% inter-facility (hospital to hospital) and 20% scene. ...more on Wikipedia about "ARCH Air Medical Service"
An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a portable electronic device that diagnoses and treats cardiac arrest by reestablishing an effective heart rhythm. This treatment is called defibrillation, which applies an electric shock to the entire heart muscle, uniformly clearing the electrical activity of the heart, hopefully allowing it to resynchronize. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automated external defibrillator"
A BVM Resuscitator (Bag Valve Mask) is a part of the usual equipment for advanced life support patient treatment in medical emergencies. It is a bag which is self-filling with air or additional oxygen (O2) can be added. The BVM directs the gas inside it via a one-way valve when compressed by a rescuer; the gas is then delivered through a mask and into the patient's trachea and into the lungs. This technique is regularly necessary in medical emergencies when the patient's breathing is insufficiant or has ceased completely. The BVM Resuscitator is used in order to manually provide mechanical ventilation. An endotracheal tube (ETT) can be inserted by a trained practitioner and the mask substituted for the ETT. This provides a more secure fit, is easier to manage during emergency transport as the ET Tube is sealed with an inflatable cuff in the Trachea, so that any regurgitation cannot enter the lungs. Such material is very caustic and can severely damage the lung tissue. Inhalation of stomach contents can be fatal and the after effects are known as Mendlesons Syndrome. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bag valve mask"
Basic life support (BLS) is a specific level of prehospital medical care provided by trained responders, including emergency medical technicians, in the absence of advanced medical care. ...more on Wikipedia about "Basic life support"
A certified first responder is a person who has completed forty to sixty hours of training in providing care for medical emergencies. They have more skill than someone who is trained in first aid but are not emergency medical technicians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Certified first responder"
The Emergency Medical Service system (known by the acronym "EMS" in the USA and Canada) is responsible for providing pre-hospital (or out-of-hospital) care by paramedics, emergency medical technicians (EMT's), and Medical first responders (MFRs in US terminology). ...more on Wikipedia about "Emergency Medical Services"
An emergency medical technician or EMT ( American English) is an emergency responder trained to provide emergency medical services to the critically ill and injured. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emergency medical technician"
Kendric Extrication Device (KED) is a device that is used in Vehicle extrication to remove a patient from a motor vehicle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Extrication splint"
A long spine board (LSB), or backboard, is a medical device used for the immobilization and transportation of patients. Backboards are used especially when trauma to the spine is suspected, because movement when a patient has a spinal injury can damage the spinal cord and result in permanent paralysis. Spine boards are frequently used in patient extrication from vehicles after auto accidents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Long spine board"
The Marseille Marine Fire Battalion, or in French le Bataillon de marins-pompiers de Marseille or BMPM, is the fire and rescue service for the city of Marseille and the Mediterranean Maritime Region. The battalion is a branch of the French Navy or Marine Nationale, and consists of directly recruited military personnel, like the French Gendarmerie. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marseille Marine Fire Battalion"
In medicine, mechanical ventilation is a method to assist or replace spontaneous breathing. Mechanical ventilation can be life-saving and is a mainstay of CPR, intensive care medicine, and anesthesia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mechanical ventilation"
Oxygen therapy or Oxygen first aid is use of oxygen administration as a treatment for an acute or chronic medical emergency. Oxygen therapy benefits the patient by enhancing the body's perfusion; increasing the supply of oxygen to the blood and thereby increasing the availability of oxygen to vital organs. Oxygen in high concentrations can also have a euphoric effect, relaxing otherwised stressed patients. For this reason, oxygen therapy and a listening ear may be the only treatments required for an individual experiencing a panic attack. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oxygen first aid"
A paramedic, is a highly trained medical professional who responds to medical and trauma emergencies in the pre-hospital setting ("in-field") for the purpose of stabilizing a patient's condition before and during transportation to an appropriate medical facility. Paramedics most often will transport patients to an Emergency Department, but "Treat-and-Release" practice can occasionally occur, local protocols permitting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paramedic" Things Go Better with shortopedia. shortopedia
Until very recently, the French pre-hospital care strategy was based on either first responders ( firemen) or prehospital medical teams ( MD + nurse + ambulance driver) called Smur (service mobile d'urgence et de réanimation, emergency resuscitation mobile unit). With this organisation, any situation requiring a paramedic is handled by a physician who specialises in pre-hospital emergencies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paramedics in France"
The development of the German prehospital EMS system is largely based on the history of the unique influence of volunteer aid organizations, particularly the German Red Cross. After 1945 especially, surgical departments of several German universities played a major role in developing an Advanced Life Support system. Due to the heavy volunteer involvement the government was very passive in regulating the EMS system development, as this was mostly done by the volunteer aid organizations themselves. As volunteers cannot meet the demands for paramedic education anymore, EMS is changing its face in Germany. The so called volunteer aid organizations employ 90 % of all paid EMS professionals. Volunteers are mostly only seen as First Responders, the role of EMS physicians developed because of the largely Samaritan oriented work of volunteers. Most of the costs of today’s EMS are covered by the health insurance system as well as through taxes, and fees. In the last 10 years German EMS has made a large step towards maturity. The development of a paramedic profession, the increased scientific research in the area of emergency medicine, the integration of European emergency services and professions as well as economic demands have already influenced EMS in the last few years and will continue shaping the development of EMS in the future. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paramedics in Germany"
The Paris Fire Brigade (French Brigade des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris, BSPP), is the fire service for the city of Paris and the surrounding départements of Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine. The remaining departments in the Paris Metropole have their own fire brigades. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paris Fire Brigade"
The Rega is the air rescue service which provides emergency medical assistance via helicopter in Switzerland, notably in mountain but also in cases of life-threatening emergencies in the plain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rega (air rescue)"
SAMU (Service d'Aide Médicale d'Urgence, "Emergency Medical Assistance Service") is the French hospital based emergency medical service. It was founded in 1968 by coordinating the existing SMUR teams (prehospital care units). ...more on Wikipedia about "SAMU"
(Sapeur-pompier) The sapeurs-pompiers (SP), officially le Corps du Sapeurs-Pompiers, are the firefighters of France. They are organized, supervised and trained by the French Ministry of the Interior; specifically, they fall under the Civil defense and Security Directorate (Direction des défense et sécurité civiles, DDSC). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sapeur-pompier"
Search and rescue ( acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest ("Wilderness search and rescue"), or at sea, whether close to shore or not. The term can also be applied in urban situations when young children or senile people wander away from their homes and cannot be found. ...more on Wikipedia about "Search and rescue"
START is an acronym for Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment, and is defined as being a method that first responders use to effectively and efficiently evaluate all of the victims during a mass casualty incident (MCI) ** . The first-arriving medical personnel will use a triage tool called a triage tag to categorize the victims by the severity of their injury. Once they have a better handle of the MCI, the on-scene personnel will call in to request for the additional appropriate resources and assign the incoming emergency service personnel their tasks. The victims will be easily identifiable in terms of what the appropriate care is needed by the triage tags they were administered. This method was developed by the staff members of Hoag Hospital ** and by the staff members of the Newport Beach Fire Department ** located in CA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Simple triage and rapid treatment"
SMUR is an acronym for Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation ("Emergency and Ressucitation Mobile Service"). It designates specialised EMS services in France, Belgium and Switzerland, and in other French-speaking countries. They are mobile medical units designed to provide emergency care to patients on the scene of an accident or malaise, and also to transport patients in need of medical attention. The first SMUR was created in Paris in 1956 by Professor Maurice Cara ( hôpital Necker) to transport patients from one hospital to another with life support during a poliomyelitis epidemic. ...more on Wikipedia about "SMUR"
A splint is a medical device for the immobilization of limbs or of the spine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Splint (medicine)"
Stabilization is a process to help prevent shock in sick or injured people. Stabilization is often performed by EMTs and nurses before or just after arrival in hospital. It includes controlling bleeding, arranging for proper evacuation, keeping patients warm with blankets, and calming them by personal providing attention and concern for their well-being. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stabilization"
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