[Stocked medications in emergency medical service vehicles staffed by physicians-is prehospital treatment according to current guidelines possible?]

ABSTRACT:

Background

High quality of care in prehospital emergency medicine is characterized by guideline-based therapy. The basic prerequisite for this therapy is the availability of the required drugs in accordance with the current guideline recommendations. It is currently unclear whether this is guaranteed nationwide. There is no uniform standard regarding which drugs must be stocked in emergency medical services (EMS) vehicles staffed by physicians in Germany. The aim of the present study is to identify important diagnoses and the drugs required for their therapy. In a second step, medical directors throughout Germany were interviewed about current drugs available in their physician-staffed EMS vehicles and these were compared with the previously defined diagnosis-dependent drug lists.<

SUBMITTER: Carstens E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9101990 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature