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    Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment...
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    An emergency medical technician (often, more simply, EMT) is a medical professional that provides emergency medical services. EMTs are most commonly found...
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    Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom provide emergency care to people with acute illness or injury and are predominantly provided free at the...
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  • emergencies starting outside medical care, a key component of providing proper care is to summon the emergency medical services (usually an ambulance), by...
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    by the fire services and private ambulance services. The term SAMU may refer to either the overall integrated emergency medical service of France, or...
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    general practitioners, to air ambulance evacuations and other emergency medical services. Fixed wing military air ambulances came into regular use during...
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    for medical in China). Calls made to emergency services to report emergencies are called calls for service. The availability of emergency services depends...
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    In the United States, emergency medical services (EMS) provide out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care for those in need...
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    Tactical Emergency medical services (TEMS) is out-of-hospital care given in hostile situations by specially trained practitioners. Tactical support provided...
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    The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is an act of the United States Congress, passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus...
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    Emergency medical services in Italy currently consist primarily of a combination of volunteer organizations providing ambulance service, supplemented...
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  • Emergency Medical Service (German: "Rettungsdienst", lit. "Rescue Service") in Germany is a service of public pre-hospital emergency healthcare, including...
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  • Boston Emergency Medical Services (Boston EMS) provides basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS) ambulance units throughout the neighborhoods...
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    patients of all ages. As first-line providers, in coordination with emergency medical services, they are primarily responsible for initiating resuscitation and...
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  • Emergency medical services in Australia are provided by state ambulance services, which are a division of each state or territorial government, and by...
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  • Emergency medical services (EMS) in Pakistan are provided both by the government and private sector, with the latter being main a payment-for-service...
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    Emergency medical services in Canada are the responsibility of each Canadian province or territory. The services, including both ambulance and paramedic...
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    Emergency medical services in Portugal are organized in three separate systems, one each covering Continental Portugal, the Azores and Madeira. The largest...
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    Emergency Medical Services in Spain (Servicios de Emergencias Médicas, SEM) (EMS) are public services usually provided by regional Governments. Spanish...
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    Emergency Medical Service (EMS, Rettungsdienst or more frequently just Rettung) in Austria is a service of public pre-hospital emergency healthcare, including...
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    o Państwowym Ratownictwie Medycznym (State Medical Rescue Act), including ambulance service and Emergency Departments (EDs). While in Polish public hospitals...
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    Emergency medical services in South Africa are a public/private system aimed at the provision of emergency ambulance service, including emergency care...
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    government, whose agencies (emergency services) are responsible for emergency planning and management. An incident, to be an emergency, conforms to one or more...
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  • Emergency medical services in Israel are provided by the Magen David Adom (MDA) organization, and in some places by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society...
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  • Emergency medical services (EMS) Week, or EMS Week, was originally authorized by President Gerald Ford on November 4, 1974 for the week of November 3–10...
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    Emergency medical services (Russian: Скорая Медицинская Помощь, romanized: Skoraya Meditsinskaya Pomoshch, lit. 'Emergency Medical Help') in Russia is...
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  • Emergency medical services in Norway are operated both by the government (financed through the four Service Delivery Regions, each with its own regional...
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    Paramedics work as part of the emergency medical services (EMS), most often in ambulances. They also have roles in emergency medicine, primary care, transfer...
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    Ramadoss. The 108 Emergency Response Service is a free emergency service providing integrated medical, police and fire emergency services. Y. S. Rajasekhara...
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    of emergency medical services (EMS), and the dispatching and support of EMS resources responding to an emergency call. The term "emergency medical dispatcher"...
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