Medical emergencies

America, you have the opportunity to call 911 and receive emergency medical care. Depending on where you are when you make that call may have an effect on how long it takes for someone to get to you. So, what defines the word emergency? Is it a life threading situation, or just an everyday illness? Community Paramedicine has many benefits, from helping cut down on people being re admitted to the hospital, to helping people not misuse the emergency 911 system even if they do not realize they are doing

The concept of modern day Emergency Medical Services (EMS) care is widely noted to begin with the academic paper, "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society", (or "White Paper") in 1966, according to EMS textbooks and relevant academia in the field. This paper detailed the statistics of highway accidents resulting in injury and death in the mid 60's, as well as other causes of injury and death, and used the statistics to confirm that reform was needed in the United

Emergency Medical Services Emergency medical services provide prehospital medical care to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients on scene and while transporting the patient to the hospital. In rural areas, the responding emergency medical services’ scope of practice varies from basic life support capabilities, which may be limited to effective chest compressions and use of a bag-mask device, to advanced life support capabilities encompassing a set of interventions and medication treatments intended

Like many countries, Australia’s emergency medical services started out as just people transporting sick and injured patients to the hospital. This service evolved along with technology and time. In the 1960’s, the defibrillator made its way onto the ambulance, and the CPR technique was developed (Tintinalli, Cameron, & Holliman, 2010). This new cardiac care soon spread all over the world and is perhaps the beginning of what we recognize now as emergency medical services. Soon ambulance personnel

Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Air medical transport has only been used for the past 70 years. The first true air ambulance flight was during the Great War. A Serbian officer was transported from the battlefield to the hospital by plane. Air ambulance was being tested by different military organizations during the First World War. Schaefer Air services was the first United States air ambulance service, created in 1947. The Korean War was the big turning point for EMS helicopters. In 1950

quite some time, but during the 1960’s it had more of an interest. “The evolution of the emergency medical services system in the United States accelerated rapidly between 1960 and 1973 as a result of a number of medical, historical, and social forces.” (Manish N. Shah, 414). The field that I am interested in is Health and with in the field of Health I want to investigate and focus on an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). The reason for this is because this is a field I am actively interested in

support the emergency medical dispatch professional ensuring that the public’s need of health related emergencies are coordinated quickly, effectively and safely with the most appropriate medical response. The communication industry is changing more rapidly than most agencies can keep up with, and Emergency Medical Dispatch is the most effective and economically feasible advancement for the services response. Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) is a system structured around the use of medical dispatching

In the world of emergency medical services (EMS), first responders face many challenges. Most of these are well known by the general public, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from difficult calls, meeting financial needs, and working long hours. What is not known by many is that first responders also face the challenging task of learning and remembering an extensive list of protocols for the state they work in. I remember starting my emergency medical technician (EMT) class a little

As for myself, I find the medical field to be what I am personally most interested in. I believe that the three top careers I might pursue are a coroner, an emergency medical technician, or a nuclear medicine technologist. A coroner is a profession that deals with the actions of preforming autopsies for determining the cause of an unexplained death or doing an investigation on a body related to a crime scene. The requirements that are

illness or trauma are influenced by timely, appropriate medical care. This begins with what interventions the ambulance crew provides if one is called. In the prehospital environment, there are four levels of providers: Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT), and Paramedic (National Scope of Practice Model, 20-21). The EMT is considered the “backbone” of prehospital emergency medicine (National Scope of Practice Model 23). It