Paramedicine
In the US, paramedicine is the physician-directed practice of medicine, often viewed as the intersection of health care, public health, and public safety. While discussed for many years, the concept of paramedicine was first formally described in the EMS Agenda for the Future.
Profession
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Theory
Paramedicine is based on the emerging concept of paramedic theory, which is the study and analysis of how the three pillars of paramedicine (health care and medicine, public health, and public safety) interact and intersect. As stated in the IoM Report EMS at the Crossroads (2006), EMS is currently highly fragmented and largely separated from the overall health care system.[5] A major emphasis of paramedic theory is the integration of emergency medical services, both intraprofessionally and extraprofessionally. Intraprofessional integration is the study of resource allocation, distribution, deployment and efficiency. Extraprofessional study involves the integration of EMS with the nation's existing (and future) emergency care and health care system.[citation needed]
Other areas of inquiry in paramedic theory include emergency response, response planning, community education, transport medicine, disaster preparedness and response, emergency management, pandemic and epidemic, emergency response planning, special operations, and medical aspects of rescue.[citation needed]
See also
- Emergency Medical Services in the United States
- Emergency medical personnel in the United Kingdom
- Paramedicina
- Paramedics in the United States
- Paramedics in Canadá
- Paramedics in Australia
- Paramedics in Perú
- Health science
- Allied health professions
- Sociedad de Paramédicos
- Alternative medicine
References
- ^ EMS Agenda for the Future (1996)
- ^ "Education | NHTSA EMS". Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
- ^ http://www.ems.gov/education/EMSScope.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Paramedics/EMTs in the Emergency Department (ED)". U.S. Texas Board of Nursing. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ IoM Report EMS at the Crossroads (2006) Archived 2006-07-02 at the Wayback Machine