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CPR instructions provided over the telephone by the emergency dispatcher, called dispatcher-assisted CPR, can substantially increase bystander-initiated CPR and thereby increase the chance for survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight
It's a one-person ambulance drone modelled after a standard quadcopter–driven by a GPS, pilot, or combination of both–that could be dispatched to an emergency scene with a single EMT. The EMT stabilizes the patient, loads him up, and sends him back to the hospital for further treatment
Drugs that save lives in case of emergency.
Use of digital technologies and telecommunications, such as computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, to facilitate health improvement and health care services
This activity includes the measurement of electrocardiogram signals and their transmission to remote healthcare professionals.
An online Community of Practice where practitioners and other relevant stakeholders from the Emergency Medical Services sector in Europe can elaborate and analyse important areas of capability gaps, and thus set the ground for future conception of new technological solutions
System to provide economic resources to emergency medical services.
People who are responsible in some way for managing an emergency medical service.
A company or other group of people that works together as an emergency medical service.