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Pre-hospital Trauma Assessment
Pre-hospital emergency medicine (abbreviated PHEM), also referred to as pre-hospital care, immediate care, or emergency medical services medicine (abbreviated EMS medicine), is a medicine, medical subspecialty which focuses on caring for seriously ill or injured patients before they reach hospital, and during emergency transfer to hospital or between hospitals. It may be practised by physicians from various backgrounds such as anaesthesiology, emergency medicine, intensive care medicine and acute medicine, after they have completed initial training in their base medical specialty, specialty. Doctors practising PHEM are usually well-integrated with local emergency medical services, and are dispatched together with emergency medical technicians or paramedics where potentially life-threatening trauma or illness is suspected that may benefit from immediate specialist medical treatment. This may involve travelling by car or air ambulance to the site. Training Europe The Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BASICS Scotland Doctor
Basics or BASICS may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Basics (Houston Person album), ''Basics'' (Houston Person album), a 1989 album by saxophonist Houston Person * Basics (Paul Bley album), ''Basics'' (Paul Bley album), a 2001 solo album by pianist Paul Bley * Basics (Star Trek: Voyager), "Basics" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), the 42nd and 43rd episodes of the American science fiction television ''Star Trek: Voyager'' * The Basics, an Australian band * The Basics (TV show), ''The Basics'' (TV show), a 2021 American web series * "Basics", a 2022 song by Twice from ''Between 1&2'' Other uses * British Association for Immediate Care, an association of prehospital health care professionals See also * Basic (other) * Back to Basics (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Medical Council
The General Medical Council (GMC) is a public body that maintains the official register of physician, medical practitioners within the United Kingdom. Its chief responsibility is to "protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public" by controlling entry to the register, and suspending or removing members when necessary. It also sets the standards for medical schools in the UK. Membership of the register confers substantial privileges under Part VI of the Medical Act 1983. It is a criminal offence to make a false claim of membership. The GMC is supported by fees paid by its members, and it became a registered charity in 2001. History The Medical Act 1858 established the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom as a statutory body. Initially its members were elected by the members of the profession, and enjoyed widespread confidence from the profession. Purpose All the GMC's functions derive from a statutory requirement for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Critical Emergency Medicine
Critical emergency medicine (CREM) refers to the acute (medicine), acute medicine, medical care of patients who have medical emergency, medical emergencies that pose an immediate threat to life, irrespective of location. In particular, the term is used to describe the role of anaesthesiologists in providing such care. The term was introduced in 2010 in a position paper by the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, who defined it as "immediate life support and resuscitation of critically ill and injured patients in the pre-hospital emergency medicine, pre-hospital as well as hospital settings". It describes the roles and competencies of anaesthesiologists and intensive care medicine, intensive care physicians in caring for patients with life-threatening illness or injury who require resuscitation or support of their vital functions, particularly in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. One reason the term was introduced was to distinguish these core ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Prehospital Consortium
The Global Prehospital Consortium, also known as GPC, is an international collaborative of organizations directing community bystander-driven emergency medical services programs, currently representing operations across 12 countries on 3 continents with 22,000 first responders. The GPC supports governments, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders to inform capacity-building efforts to cost-effectively implement evidence-based emergency care interventions in low- and middle-income countries. History The GPC working group was initially formed in 2022, comprising 11 representatives from seven community bystander-driven emergency medical services (EMS) organizations. Over an eight month period between November 2022 and June 2023 using a 9-round modified Delphi-based approach, consensus was reached among participants on seven priorities to direct global efforts toward EMS development. Priorities included infrastructure/operations, communication, education/training, imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highland PICT Team
The 'Prehospital Immediate Care and Trauma'' (PICT) Team is a Emergency medical services, prehospital care team which operates from Raigmore Hospital emergency department in Inverness, Scotland. It receives funding from NHS Highland and the Scottish Trauma Network and initially from BASICS Scotland. They are an enhanced care team responding to trauma and other critical care incidents in Inverness and the Northwest Highlands, utilising a rapid response car. PICT comprises either a senior doctor from Raigmore Hospital or a rural GP, together with a Scottish Ambulance Service advanced practitioner in critical care. In light of the sparsely distributed ambulance resources in the Highlands and the challenges of distance and weather in the north west of Scotland, PICT has a considerable remit beyond trauma, operating as Community Emergency Medicine(CEM) service as well as a prehospital trauma team. PICT provides support to ambulance crews and community responders in medical emergenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BASICS Scotland
The British Association for Immediate Care Scotland (BASICS Scotland) is an organisation involved with prehospital care. It has the aims of providing encouragement and aid with the formation of immediate care schemes and to provide training to support those working in prehospital care. It shares its origins with the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS), which has UK wide coverage. In 1993, the British Association for Immediate Care began running prehospital care courses in Scotland, which were met with a warm welcome and it became clear there was a large audience for such education, especially in remote and rural areas of Scotland. This need for training and organisational leadership became clearer after the 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre. This led to the training provided by BASICS to be modified for a more rural setting, and to the development of BASICS Scotland as a separate organisation in 2002. BASICS Scotland's charitable activities span ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airbag
An airbag is a vehicle occupant-restraint system using a bag designed to inflate in milliseconds during a collision and then deflate afterwards. It consists of an airbag cushion, a flexible fabric bag, an inflation module, and an impact sensor. The purpose of the airbag is to provide a vehicle occupant with soft cushioning and restraint during a collision. It can reduce injuries between the flailing occupant and the vehicle's interior. The airbag provides an energy-absorbing surface between the vehicle's occupants and a steering wheel, instrument panel, body pillar, headliner, and windshield. Modern vehicles may contain up to ten airbag modules in various configurations, including driver, passenger, side-curtain, seat-mounted, door-mounted, B- and C-pillar mounted side-impact, knee bolster, inflatable seat belt, and pedestrian airbag modules. During a crash, the vehicle's crash sensors provide crucial information to the airbag electronic controller unit (ECU), including colli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazardous Material
Dangerous goods are substances that are a risk to health, safety, property or the Natural environment, environment during transport. Certain dangerous goods that pose risks even when not being transported are known as hazardous materials (syllabic abbreviation, syllabically abbreviated as HAZMAT or hazmat). An example of dangerous goods is hazardous waste which is waste that threatens public health or the environment. Hazardous materials are often subject to Regulation of chemicals, chemical regulations. Hazmat teams are personnel specially trained to handle dangerous goods, which include materials that are radioactive, flammable, explosive, corrosive, oxidizer, oxidizing, asphyxiant gas, asphyxiating, biohazardous, Toxicity, toxic, poisonous, pathogenic, or allergenic. Also included are physical conditions such as compressed gases and liquids or hot materials, including all goods containing such materials or chemicals, or may have other characteristics that render them hazardo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Responder
A first responder is a person with specialized training who is among the first to arrive and provide assistance or incident resolution at the scene of an emergency. First responders typically include Law enforcement, law enforcement officers (commonly known as Police officer, police officers), emergency medical services members (such as Emergency medical technician, EMTs or Paramedic, paramedics), Fire department, fire service members (such as Firefighter, firefighters, search and rescue members, Technical rescue, technical/heavy rescue members, etc) and Public Works employees such as Heavy Equipment Operators as well as Public Works Tree Department personnel. In some jurisdictions, emergency department personnel, such as Physician, doctors and Nursing, nurses, are also required to respond to disasters and critical situations, designating them first responders; in other jurisdictions, military and security forces may also be authorized to act as first responders. In a medical con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physical Trauma
Injury is physiology, physiological damage to the living tissue of any organism, whether Injury in humans, in humans, Injury in animals, in other animals, or Injury in plants, in plants. Injuries can be caused in many ways, including mechanically with penetrating trauma, penetration by sharp objects such as Tooth, teeth or blunt trauma, with blunt objects, by heat or cold, or by venoms and biotoxins. Injury prompts an Inflammation, inflammatory response in many taxa of animals; this prompts wound healing. In both plants and animals, substances are often released to help to occlude the wound, limiting loss of fluids and the entry of pathogens such as bacteria. Many organisms secrete antimicrobial chemicals which limit wound infection; in addition, animals have a variety of immune responses for the same purpose. Both plants and animals have regrowth mechanisms which may result in complete or partial healing over the injury. Cells too can Cell damage, repair damage to a certain de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Board Of Emergency Medicine
The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) is one of 24 medical specialty certification boards recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties. ABEM is a physician-led, non-profit independent organization that certifies residency trained emergency medicine physicians who pass both written and certifying examinations and maintain their certification on a five year cycle. It was originally funded by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in 1968 and received specialty board approval in 1979 to become the 23rd medical specialty. History The development of Emergency Medicine as a nationally recognized medical specialty began in the 1960s when the number of patients requiring emergency care was increasing. In 1960, emergency medicine was not a recognized medical specialty and emergency rooms were run by on-call physicians of varying specialties. With the goal of advancing and advocating for the specialty of Emergency Medicine, eight physicians in Lans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramedics In The United Kingdom
Emergency medical personnel in the United Kingdom are people engaged in the provision of emergency medical services. This includes paramedics, emergency medical technicians and emergency care assistants. 'Paramedic' is a protected title, strictly regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council, although there is tendency for the public to use this term when referring to any member of ambulance staff. Emergency medical personnel most often work in an ambulance alongside another member of staff. Typically, an ambulance will be crewed by either a paramedic with another crew member (technician or emergency care assistant), two technicians or a technician with an emergency support worker. The majority of emergency medical personnel are employed by the Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom#Public ambulance services, public ambulance services of the National Health Service and respond to emergency calls generated by the 999 (emergency telephone number), 999 system. Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
