Medical assistance to citizens is provided in conditions that require urgent intervention. Such cases include injuries, poisoning, accidents, and so on. The emergency medical manual reflects the basic standards according to which this intervention is carried out. Activities are carried out without delay by a medical, preventive institution (regardless of the subordination of a territorial or departmental nature, as well as the form of ownership). 24-hour intervention can be provided by an ambulance station.
Providing activities is considered an obligation of the municipal formation. Ambulance stations are medical and preventive departments. They are organized in cities where the population is more than fifty thousand people.
Medical assistance is provided to all, without exception, sick (or injured in natural disasters or catastrophes). The functions of the institution also include the transportation of patients, including: patients with infections, women in labor, as well as persons in need of emergency medical attention.manipulations.
Emergency medical care is provided by a specialized mobile team. Specialists work according to the schedule. The brigade consists of one doctor, two paramedics (or one paramedic and an anesthetist), an orderly, and a driver. The medical care provided by the team is in accordance with established standards.
During the time free from calls, the personnel must be present in the premises of the station or branch. Ambulance teams are staffed in accordance with the established list of equipment.
Specialists carry out immediate departure and arrival to the victim or patient within the time limit established for this administrative region. Medical workers establish a diagnosis, carry out activities that contribute to the stabilization or improvement of the patient's condition. If indicated, the team transports the patient to the treatment and prevention department.
The duties of specialists include the distribution of victims and the formation of a sequence for the implementation of the necessary measures. The team also performs the necessary sanitary and hygienic actions.
Patients brought by specialists to the institution must be immediately transferred to specialists on duty in the admissions department. At the same time, a note is made on the call card about the time of arrival of the victim.
In large cities, substations are organized - structural subdivisions of stations. Datainstitutions are formed taking into account twenty-minute availability. The zones served by a particular substation are determined in accordance with the population, features of development, saturation of enterprises, traffic intensity and the state of transport routes.
