Civista Emergency

Emergency

UPDATED: July 2002
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Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services or paramedic services are a type of medical care provided to citizens for diseases, accidents, injuries, poisoning and other conditions requiring urgent medical intervention.

General characteristics

The characteristic features that fundamentally distinguish emergency medical care from other types of medical care are:

urgency of medical care provision;
trouble-free nature of its provision;
free procedure for the provision of EMS;
diagnostic uncertainty under time pressure conditions;
pronounced social significance.

Conditions for the provision of emergency medical care:

outside the medical organization;
on an outpatient basis (in conditions that do not provide for round-the-clock medical supervision and treatment);
stationary (in conditions providing round-the-clock observation and treatment).

Main functions

Emergency medical care is provided to citizens in conditions requiring urgent medical intervention (in case of accidents, injuries, poisoning and other conditions and diseases). In particular, emergency medical service departments carry out:

Round-the-clock provision of timely and high-quality medical care in accordance with the standards of medical care to sick and injured persons who are outside medical and preventive institutions, including in case of catastrophes and natural disasters;
Implementation of timely transportation (as well as transportation at the request of medical workers) of patients, including infectious, injured and women in childbirth, in need of emergency inpatient care;
Provision of medical care to the sick and injured who seek help directly at the ambulance station, in the office for the reception of outpatients;
Notification of municipal health authorities about all emergencies and accidents in the service area of ??the ambulance station;
Ensuring uniform staffing of the ambulance teams with medical personnel for all shifts and their full provision according to the approximate list of equipment for the ambulance team.

Along with this, the emergency medical service can transport donated blood and its components, as well as transport narrow specialists for emergency consultations.

The ambulance service conducts scientific, practical, methodological, sanitary and educational work.