Mobile Intensive Care Units: Advanced Emergency Care Delivery Systems

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Concept of an Emergency Health Care Planning Team....Pages 2-4
On the Organization in the Piemonte and Tor’ino Areas....Pages 5-10
The American Approach to Improvement of Emergency Medical Services: Community Councils on Ems....Pages 11-11
Political Roadblocks to Organizing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Allegheny County, U.S.A.....Pages 12-12
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania’s Emergency Care Non-System....Pages 13-14
Centralization of All Personnel and Equipment in Rescue Services....Pages 15-15
Intervention of Helicopters in Disaster Relief and Rescue Service in the Federal Republic....Pages 16-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Telemetry Command in an Integrated Emergency Care System....Pages 18-18
Interdisciplinary Nature of Mobile Intensive Care Units....Pages 19-19
Possibilities and Limits in the Use of Bio-Telemetric Appliances in Rescue-Services....Pages 20-20
A Communication Set Up for Air, Sea and Ground EMS....Pages 21-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
The Mast + -1 Garment in Hypovolemic Shock....Pages 38-38
Behandlung am Notfallort und Während des Transportes im Hochgebirge....Pages 39-41
Cardiovascular and Other Effects of Transporting Ill Patients....Pages 42-49
A Simple Method for Continuous ECG Registration by Compact Casette Tape Recorder During Helicopter Transport....Pages 50-55
Features of a New Intensive Care Ambulance....Pages 56-57
The S-61 Helicopter as Mobile Intensive Care Unit....Pages 58-61
Mobile Neonatal Intensive Care....Pages 62-64
Care for and Transport of Newborn Babies in the Ambulance Practice....Pages 65-67
Secondary Transportation in Southern Finland....Pages 68-70
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
The Mobile Intensive Care Unit in Helsinki....Pages 71-73
Experiences in a Mobile Intensive Care Unit in Lagos....Pages 74-77
Der Service D’aide Medicale D’urgence....Pages 78-80
Experiences with an Ambulance Service in Oslo Manned by a Doctor....Pages 81-83
Mobile Intensive Care Units....Pages 84-84
Transport of the Severely Injured During Long-Distance Flight....Pages 85-85
Function of a Coordinated Helicopter-Emergency Service....Pages 86-87
Importance and Complications in Application of Cavacatheters Under Transport Conditions....Pages 88-89
Possibilities of Pain Alleviation at the Site of an Accident or Disaster....Pages 90-90
Ambulance Design and Equipment for Mobile Intensive Care....Pages 91-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Critical Care Medicine: Organizing and Staffing Intensive Care Units....Pages 96-96
Patient Care During Inter-Hospital Transfer....Pages 97-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Evaluation Research....Pages 100-105
Evaluation of an EMS System by Analysis of Compiled Data from Run Reports and the Emergency Department Log....Pages 106-113
The Computer Interrogative Textbook Project: A Preliminary Report....Pages 114-118
Ein Vorschlag Zur Verbesserung Neurochirurgischer Verlaufskontrollen....Pages 119-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Erkennung und Erste Hilfe Durch Laien (Ausbildung Der Bevölkerung)....Pages 124-127
Operation of Cardiac Emergency Care Delivery System by Paramedical Personnel....Pages 128-130
The Training of Emergency Medical Technicians--Cardiovascular....Pages 131-134
Recognition and First Aid by Bystanders....Pages 135-137
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Suggestions for the Organization of Mobile Intensive Care Units....Pages 138-140
Present Situation in the Training of Rescue Personnel....Pages 141-142
Evolution of Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics in the U.S.A.....Pages 143-145
Inadequacy of Prehospital Emergency Care....Pages 146-146
First Aid and Emergency Care Training; its Effect on Prehospital Emergency Care....Pages 147-147
Advanced Life Support by Volunteer Fire Department Ambulance Personnel....Pages 148-148
Teachability of Unemployed and Undereducated Individuals as Emergency Medical Technicians (Emt’s)....Pages 149-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Influence of Prehospital Emergency Cardiac Care Upon Community Mortality from Coronary Artery Disease....Pages 152-157
Einsatzerfahrungen mit dem „züricher kardiomobil“....Pages 158-163
Blind Defibrillation....Pages 164-165
The Efficacy of Pre-Hospital Therapy in Cardiac Disease....Pages 166-167
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Basic Life Support Self-Training System for All Personnel....Pages 168-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Emergency Care in Major Accidents (Railway, Air, Road, Industrial)....Pages 172-172
Intensive Care Under Primitive Conditions....Pages 173-175
The Catastrophe Plans for Lausanne and the Canton of Vaud....Pages 176-184
International Preparedness Operation and Coordination in Cases of Disaster....Pages 185-186
Die ärztliche Versorgung bei Grosskatastrophen....Pages 187-189
The Involvement of the Police Service in Great Britain with the Medical Services at Times of Disaster....Pages 190-197
A Network of Base Hospitals for Large Scale Catastrophes....Pages 198-201
Emergency Care Medicine under Primitive Conditions....Pages 202-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Research in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (ECCM)....Pages 204-206
Reducing of Vibration Stress Inside Emergency–Ambulance....Pages 207-212
Tragen, Ausführungen und Abmessungen Anordnung der Lagerung in den Transportsystemen....Pages 213-226
International Cooperation in the Field of Rescue–Technical Investagiton....Pages 227-228
Considerations on International Teamwork in the Field of Aid in Catastrophes and Emergency Medicine....Pages 229-229
Verbesserungen des Rettungswesens in Rheiland-Pfalz....Pages 230-233
Back Matter....Pages 253-272