Articles: emergency-medical-services.
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In order to effectively implement a community-wide trauma system, a mechanism of field triage is required. This process of triage should be simple to use and should accurately identify patients who are in need of level I trauma facility care. ⋯ The CRAMS (Circulation, Respiration, Abdomen, Motor, Speech) scale was prospectively studied as a potential triage tool by using it to score patients in the field and then comparing their scores to their emergency room dispositions and final outcomes. The CRAMS scale was easy to apply and accurately identified both the critically injured who should be triaged to a Level I center and the less critically injured who can be adequately cared for by Level II and III centers.
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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.