Pre-hospital Section

Pre-hospital emergency care is an integral part of emergency medicine and is extremely important as a first link in the chain of survival.

It should be available for all European citizens without any administrative or other barriers.

Pre-hospital emergency care demands specific scope of knowledge and skills from providers based on excellent knowledge and experience from work in Emergency Deaprtments as a clinical base of EM.

Despite different approaches within European countries the EuSEM Pre-hospital Section would like to develop pre-hospital emegency care and ensure the highest quality of performance all over Europe.

Our main goals are:

to discuss standards of management of medical conditions, diseases and traumas in the field
to improve quality of providing care including communication, team leadership and ethical considerations specific for pre-hospital care
to improve mutual knowledge of different systems of providing pre-hospital care and discuss their advantages, drawbacks, effectivity and safety for the patiens and communities
to develop specific education and training of providers of different levels including physicians
to impelement pre-hospital topics into European EM examination
to develop research in the pre-hospital field
to join the preventive campaigns towards public themes, including teaching first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, trauma prevention and others
to share knowledge between European countries

For further information and to express interest in joining the Pre-hospital Section, contact the Section Chair:

Prof Maaret Castren
E: maaret.castren@sodersjukhuset.se