Mobile Emergency Care Service: a time-course assessment and characterization of demand

In Brazil, prehospital care is defined as any medical attention provided outside the hospital environment in order to best respond to the demands of the care-seeking population. Prehospital emergency care in the country has the specific mandate of reaching the victim as early as possible to provide care and/or adequate transportation to a health facility, maintaining a coherent continuum of care that is hierarchically integrated within the national Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS).(Marques et al., 2011)
Source: International Emergency Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research