Emergency medicine in Spain

L, Jiménez Murillo; Jl, Casado Martínez; G, Burillo Putze

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“…Nosotros sólo somos meros moduladores del trabajo realizado durante años. Conocemos los sinsa-bores y la amarga sensación vivida en algunas ocasiones por muchos compañeros en el pasado [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] . Sólo esperamos compensarles por su esfuerzo y compromiso.…”

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The last steps toward emergency medicine specialization in Spain

Millán Soria,

Vázquez Lima

2024

Rev Esp Urg Emerg

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The last steps toward emergency medicine specialization in Spain

Millán Soria,

Vázquez Lima

2024

Rev Esp Urg Emerg

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“…Spanish EMSs have faced major catastrophes in recent years, with the Madrid bombing terrorist attacks on 11 March 2004 being the largest. Extensive analysis and description of such actions have been published abroad [17–20]. In this setting, the provision of health care with advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) units is crucial.…”

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State of emergency medicine in Spain

Miró

2010

Int J Emerg Med

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Spain has universal public health care coverage. Emergency care provisions are offered to patients in different modalities and levels according to the characteristics of the medical complaint: at primary care centers (PCC), in an extrahospital setting by emergency medical services (EMS) and at hospital emergency departments (ED). We have more than 3,000 PCCs, which are run by family doctors (general practitioners) and pediatricians. On average, there is 1 PCC for every 15,000 to 20,000 inhabitants, and every family doctor is in charge of 1,500 to 2,000 citizens, although less populated zones tend to have lower ratios. Doctors spend part of their duty time in providing emergency care to their own patients. While not fully devoted to emergency medicine (EM) practice, they do manage minor emergencies. However, Spanish EMSs contribute hugely to guarantee population coverage in all situations. These EMS are run by EM technicians (EMT), nurses and doctors, who usually work exclusively in the emergency arena. EDs dealt with more than 25 million consultations in 2008, which implies, on average, that one out of two Spaniards visited an ED during this time. They are usually equipped with a wide range of diagnostic tools, most including ultrasonography and computerized tomography scans. The academic and training background of doctors working in the ED varies: nearly half lack any structured specialty residence training, but many have done specific master or postgraduate studies within the EM field. The demand for emergency care has grown at an annual rate of over 4% during the last decade. This percentage, which was greater than the 2% population increase during the same period, has outpaced the growth in ED capacity. Therefore, Spanish EDs become overcrowded when the system exerts minimal stress. Despite the high EM caseload and the potential severity of the conditions, training in EM is still unregulated in Spain. However, in April 2009 the Spanish Minister of Health announced the imminent approval of an EM specialty, allowing the first EM resident to officially start in 2011. Spanish emergency physicians look forward to the final approval, which will complete the modernization of emergency health care provision in Spain.

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Telemedicine in Emergency Medical Services

Umpierrez

Arredondo

2006

Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering

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This chapter presents a new approach for the management of prehospital health emergencies: the integration of telemedicine services into an EMS community as a mean of improving the quality of care, accessibility, and cost‐effectiveness. A reference architecture is specified based on a set of services that support the development of integrated prehospital health emergency management systems according to a proposed model. The experimental work has been carried out with the collaboration of emergency medical services in Madrid that contributed to the initial design, the service provision, and the evaluation of the results. The evaluation of the proposed study cases has allowed determining the influence of the telemedicine services in the scenario of prehospital health emergency management.

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Emergency medicine in Spain

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The last steps toward emergency medicine specialization in Spain

The last steps toward emergency medicine specialization in Spain

State of emergency medicine in Spain

Telemedicine in Emergency Medical Services

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