Air medical journal
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Air medical journal · Nov 2014
Introduction of a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service in eastern Shizuoka prefecture in Japan.
To analyze the operating situation of a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service in eastern Shizuoka prefecture. ⋯ Japan is an aging society. In eastern Shizuoka prefecture, the increase in the number of trauma and minor injury cases may have increased due to the emphasis on the importance of early medical intervention by the fire department.
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Air medical journal · Nov 2014
Paramedic specialization: a strategy for better out-of-hospital care.
Demographic, economic, and political forces are driving significant change in the US health care system. Paramedics are a health profession currently providing advanced emergency care and medical transportation throughout the United States. As the health care system demands more team-based care in nonacute, community, interfacility, and tactical response settings, specialized paramedic practitioners could be a valuable and well-positioned resource to meet these needs. ⋯ A fragmented approach to specialty paramedic practice currently exists across our country in which states, regulators, nonprofit organizations, and other health care professions influence and regulate the practice of paramedicine. Multiple other medical professions, however, have already developed effective systems over the last century that can be easily adapted to the practice of paramedicine. Paramedicine practitioners need to organize a profession-based specialty board to organize and standardize a specialty certification system that can be used on a national level.