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Introduction To Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

This document provides an introduction to Emergency Medical Services (EMS). EMS is a coordinated network of professionals that provides emergency care to people in need. Emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent worsening and some situations only allow for palliative care. EMS providers include fire and rescue departments, ambulance services, and paramedics or medical assistants based in clinics and hospitals. These professionals are trained to handle life-threatening emergencies with different levels of care from basic to advanced procedures. A fundamental responsibility is to preserve life and alleviate suffering without discrimination.

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Introduction To Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

This document provides an introduction to Emergency Medical Services (EMS). EMS is a coordinated network of professionals that provides emergency care to people in need. Emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent worsening and some situations only allow for palliative care. EMS providers include fire and rescue departments, ambulance services, and paramedics or medical assistants based in clinics and hospitals. These professionals are trained to handle life-threatening emergencies with different levels of care from basic to advanced procedures. A fundamental responsibility is to preserve life and alleviate suffering without discrimination.

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Introduction to Emergency

Medical Services (EMS)


Welcome to Emergency Medical
Services…..

EMS – a coordinated network of


Professionals whose function is to
provide a variety of medical services
to people in need of emergency care.
Defining “Emergency”
• Emergency is a situation that poses an
immediate risk to health, life, property or
environment.
• Most emergency require urgent intervention
to prevent a worsening of the situation,
although in some situations, mitigation may
not be possible and agencies may only be
able to offer palliative care for the
aftermath.
• In order to be defined as an emergency,
the incident should be one of the following:
1. Immediately threatening to life, health,
property or environment.
2. Have already caused loss of life, health
detriments, property damage or
environmental damage.
3. Have a high probability danger to life, health,
property or environment.
In our system of emergency care
providers:

Most emergency cases are handled by:


• Pertahanan Awam / Bomba & Rescue
• Bulan Sabit Merah / St. John
• MA – Paramedic (Hospital & Clinic base)
Pertahanan Awam / Bomba
• CPR trained at the health care
professional level
• Required minimum training.
• Usually the first on the scene in an
emergency
• Trained to treat life-threatening
emergencies with a minimum amount of
equipment
Bulan Sabit / St John
• All of the skills of the first responder plus:
– Trained in the use and operation of the
ambulance
– Certified to treat non-invasive procedures,
such as splinting, bandaging ect.
Assistant Medical Officer (MA)
Invasive and non-invasive procedures:
– Capable of starting an intravenous line and
infusing volume-replacing normal saline
– Trained to place an endotracheal tube in a
patient’s windpipe to create a secure means
of ventilating the lungs
– Administration of intravenous medications for
cardiac, diabetic and other medical conditions
under either off-line or on-line direction
– Many other optional and advanced skills such
as chest decompression and needle
crichothyrotomy, etc.
Basic or Advanced?
• Basic life support called BLS describes the
care given by First Responders and EMT-
Basics
• Advanced life support, called ALS, is the
higher level of care performed by MA’s
and Paramedics
– Permitted to perform invasive procedures
• Procedures that introduce foreign substances or
equipment into the patient’s body
Code of ethics
• A fundamental responsibility of MA is to
conserve life, to alleviate suffering, to
promote health, to do no harm, and to
encourage the quality and equal availability
of emergency medical care.
• The MA provide services based on human
need, with respect for human dignity,
unrestricted by consideration of nationality,
race, creed, color or status.
• The MA respects and holds in confidence
all information of a confidential nature
obtained in the course of professional work
unless required by law to divulge such
information.
• The MA shall maintain professional
competence and demonstrate concern for
the competence of other members of the
emergency medical services.
Roles & Responsibilities
1. TRIAGE
- sorting out patient according to urgency
of treatment.
- RED for critically ill
- YELLOW for urgent cases
- GREEN for stable / walk-in cases.
2. RESUSCITATION, STABILIZATION and
Treatment of Unstable patients
3. Immediate Zone
4. Non-Critical Zone
- Those could be discharged after some
procedures done, eg. bandaging,
dressing etc.

5. PRE HOSPITAL CARE


- site management
- on the route management (ambulance)

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