Martin Kirschner: 1879–1942—A surgeon in prehospital care

Dick, W.

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.07.004

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“…"It is not the emergency patient who should be taken to the hospital to be seen by the doctor, but the hospital doctor should go out to see and treat the emergency patient at the scene of an accident" (Martin Kirschner 1879-1942) 1 . Martin Kirschner, a German surgeon who is wellknown to day for his remarkable innovations in many fields of medicine, including (orthopedic) trauma, already recognized the importance of pre hospital emergency medical services and the possible role for high velocity transport when he made this statement in 1938.…”

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Trauma-related dispatch criteria for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Europe

Wigman

Lieshout

Ronde

et al. 2011

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This overview demonstrates the lack of uniformity in the use of dispatch criteria for trauma assistance on a national and international level. Furthermore, the activation of HEMS is not only depending on dispatch criterion protocols, but is also influenced by organisational factors like the education of the dispatcher, the training of the EMS personnel, the familiarity with the dispatch criteria, and the responses of bystanders. Future research should aim to identify a general set of criteria with the highest discriminating potential.

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