International EMS Systems:the Nordic countries
Emergency medicine service (EMS) systems in the five Nordic countries have more similarities than differences. One similarity is the involvement of anaesthesiologists as pre-hospital physicians and their strong participation for all critically ill and injured patients in-hospital. Discrepancies do e...
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ftcopenhagenunip:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/f10338a1-5860-480c-98a4-7a49c19f2f39 2023-07-16T03:59:11+02:00 International EMS Systems:the Nordic countries Langhelle, Audun Lossius, Hans Morten Silfvast, Tom Björnsson, Hjalti Már Lippert, Freddy K Ersson, Anders Søreide, Eldar 2004 https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/international-ems-systems(f10338a1-5860-480c-98a4-7a49c19f2f39).html https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.12.008 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Langhelle , A , Lossius , H M , Silfvast , T , Björnsson , H M , Lippert , F K , Ersson , A & Søreide , E 2004 , ' International EMS Systems : the Nordic countries ' , Resuscitation , vol. 61 , no. 1 , pp. 9-21 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.12.008 article 2004 ftcopenhagenunip https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.12.008 2023-06-28T22:58:27Z Emergency medicine service (EMS) systems in the five Nordic countries have more similarities than differences. One similarity is the involvement of anaesthesiologists as pre-hospital physicians and their strong participation for all critically ill and injured patients in-hospital. Discrepancies do exist, however, especially within the ground and air ambulance service, and the EMS systems face several challenges. Main problems and challenges emphasized by the authors are: (1) Denmark: the dispatch centres are presently not under medical control and are without a national criteria based system. Access to on-line medical advice of a physician is not available; (2) Finland: the autonomy of the individual municipalities and their responsibility to cover for primary and specialised health care, as well as the EMS, and the lack of supporting or demanding legislation regarding the EMS; (3) Iceland is the only country that has emergency medicine (EM) as a recognised speciality but there is a need for more fully trained specialists in EM; (4) Norway: the ordinary ground ambulance is pointed out as the weakest link in the EM chain and a health reform demands extensive co-operation between the new health enterprises to re-establish a nation-wide air ambulance service; (5) Sweden: to create evidence based medicine standards for treatment in emergency medicine, a better integration of all part of the chain of survival, a formalised education in EM and a nation wide physician staffed helicopter EMS (HEMS) cover. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Copenhagen: Research Norway Resuscitation 61 1 9 21 |
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Emergency medicine service (EMS) systems in the five Nordic countries have more similarities than differences. One similarity is the involvement of anaesthesiologists as pre-hospital physicians and their strong participation for all critically ill and injured patients in-hospital. Discrepancies do exist, however, especially within the ground and air ambulance service, and the EMS systems face several challenges. Main problems and challenges emphasized by the authors are: (1) Denmark: the dispatch centres are presently not under medical control and are without a national criteria based system. Access to on-line medical advice of a physician is not available; (2) Finland: the autonomy of the individual municipalities and their responsibility to cover for primary and specialised health care, as well as the EMS, and the lack of supporting or demanding legislation regarding the EMS; (3) Iceland is the only country that has emergency medicine (EM) as a recognised speciality but there is a need for more fully trained specialists in EM; (4) Norway: the ordinary ground ambulance is pointed out as the weakest link in the EM chain and a health reform demands extensive co-operation between the new health enterprises to re-establish a nation-wide air ambulance service; (5) Sweden: to create evidence based medicine standards for treatment in emergency medicine, a better integration of all part of the chain of survival, a formalised education in EM and a nation wide physician staffed helicopter EMS (HEMS) cover. |
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