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Prehospital Care and New Models of Regionalization
Author(s) -
Cone David C.,
Brooke Lerner E.,
Band Roger A.,
Renjilian Chris,
Bobrow Bentley J.,
Crawford Mechem C.,
Carter Alix J. E.,
Kupas Douglas F.,
Spaite Daniel W.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00935.x
Subject(s) - medicine , medical emergency , emergency medicine
This article summarizes the discussions of the emergency medical services (EMS) breakout session at the June 2010 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference “Beyond Regionalization: Integrated Networks of Emergency Care.” The group focused on prehospital issues such as the identification of patients by EMS personnel, protocol‐driven destination selection, bypassing closer nondesignated centers to transport patients directly to more distant designated specialty centers, and the modes of transport to be used as they relate to the regionalization of emergency care. It is our hope that the proposed research agenda will be advanced in a way that begins to rigorously approach the unanswered research questions and that these answers, in turn, will lead to an evidence‐based, cohesive, comprehensive, and more uniform set of guidelines that govern the delivery and practice of prehospital emergency care. ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2010; 17:1337–1345 © 2010 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine