Emergency medical services at the crossroads
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- ISBN: 0309101743
- ISBN: 9780309101745
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xxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Development of the EMS System 1 -- Charge to the Committee 5 -- Achieving the Vision of a 21st-Century Emergency Care System 5 -- Strengths of the Current System 16 -- Patient Demographics 16 -- An Evolving and Emerging Crisis 18 -- Organization of this Report 26 -- 2 History and Current State of EMS 31 -- A Brief History of EMS 31 -- Troubled State of EMS 37 -- Federal Oversight and Funding 43 -- EMS Oversight at the State Level 50 -- Models of Organization and Service Delivery at the Local Level 53 -- 3 Building a 21st-Century Emergency and Trauma Care System 73 -- Improving Coordination 74 -- Supporting Regionalization 77 -- Fostering Accountability 83 -- Model Systems Currently in Operation 90 -- Demonstrating Future Models 95 -- Need for System Integration and a Federal Lead Agency 99 -- 4 Supporting a High-Quality EMS Workforce 119 -- Restructuring of Workforce Requirements 120 -- Emergency Medical Services Personnel 127 -- Recruitment and Retention 135 -- Emergency Medical Dispatchers 141 -- EMS Medical Directors 142 -- 5 Advancing System Infrastructure 149 -- Emergency Notification and Dispatch 150 -- Equipment for Emergency Response 157 -- Communications and Data Systems 164 -- 6 Preparing for Disasters 175 -- Array of Threats 177 -- Responses to Recent Disasters 182 -- Improving EMS-Related Disaster Preparedness in the United States 192 -- 7 Optimizing Prehospital Care Through Research 207 -- An Inadequate Research Base to Support EMS 208 -- Key Barriers to EMS Research 210 -- Research Conducted in the Prehospital Setting 218 -- Expanding the Evidence Base 220 -- A Committee and Subcommittee Membership 231 -- B Biographical Information for Main Committee and Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Subcommittee 233 -- E Recommendations and Responsible Entities from the Future of Emergency Care Series 255. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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