Articles: emergency-medical-services.
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Anasth Intensivther Notfallmed · Feb 1985
[How much labor assistance should the emergency physician render?].
Seven case reports of emergency obstetrics serve to demonstrate to what extent an emergency physician can be of help and where the limits of his field of activities are. The article describes the emergency physician's tasks in general as well as the education and training which may reasonably be expected in young physicians. It is concluded, among other things, that it is not one of the tasks of an emergency physician to supervise or initiate parturition since that is no longer part of the physician's training in the FRG.
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We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrests in King County, Washington were studied for 20 months before and after the telephone CPR program began. ⋯ We estimate that four lives may have been saved by the program. A review of hospital records revealed no excess morbidity in the group of patients receiving dispatcher-assisted CPR.