Evolution of emergency medical services in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Emergency medical services (EMS) is crucial to any healthcare system, especially in urban countries. The Kingdom of Bahrain has always strived to develop healthcare services throughout the Kingdom including EMS. Like any other country, the Kingdom has gone through several stages in the provision of...

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Autores principales: Abuzeyad, Feras H., Al Qasim, Ghada, Alqasem, Leena, Al Farras, Mudhaffar I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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State of International Emergency medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7189519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32345212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-020-00280-2
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description Emergency medical services (EMS) is crucial to any healthcare system, especially in urban countries. The Kingdom of Bahrain has always strived to develop healthcare services throughout the Kingdom including EMS. Like any other country, the Kingdom has gone through several stages in the provision of EMS. This article will focus on the development of EMS in the Kingdom and its evolution from a scattered hospital-based system to a unified system, which ensures ease of access for the population and speed of delivery to the healthcare facilities. The major focus will be the most recent national project which is the National Ambulance.
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spelling pubmed-71895192020-05-04 Evolution of emergency medical services in the Kingdom of Bahrain Abuzeyad, Feras H. Al Qasim, Ghada Alqasem, Leena Al Farras, Mudhaffar I. Int J Emerg Med State of International Emergency medicine Emergency medical services (EMS) is crucial to any healthcare system, especially in urban countries. The Kingdom of Bahrain has always strived to develop healthcare services throughout the Kingdom including EMS. Like any other country, the Kingdom has gone through several stages in the provision of EMS. This article will focus on the development of EMS in the Kingdom and its evolution from a scattered hospital-based system to a unified system, which ensures ease of access for the population and speed of delivery to the healthcare facilities. The major focus will be the most recent national project which is the National Ambulance. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7189519/ /pubmed/32345212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-020-00280-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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