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:

Dr Jana Seblova
E: jana.seblova@uszssk.cz

Meeting Report 3 October 2012