Comprehensive Review of Prehospital Emergency Care: Enhancing Outcomes through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Prehospital emergency care is an indispensable link in consecutive emergency medical care, intended for initial stabilization and transport of patients in emergency conditions. All the services rendered by the different healthcare workers significantly guarantee the patient the best results when the sickness is severe or critical. Specifically, this review focuses on the importance of interdisciplinary teamwork in prehospital emergency care and assesses the effects of the cooperative work of paramedics, EMTs, nurses, physicians, and other stakeholders. The paper also reveals the difficulties in implementing effective teamwork in the prehospital care environment, including communication difficulties, lack of qualified training among the team members, and several practical concerns. Based on experiences, surveys, and research on quality practices, this paper discusses how multimodal communication influences patient outcomes, such as mortality probability, treatment effectiveness, and more. How training, protocols, and application of technology can be advanced to improve collaborative practice in prehospital emergency care is presented as the final recommendation of the review.
Source: Journal of Ecohumanism
Authors: Mohammed Hadi Yahya Alshogaih, Abdullah Hamad Almansour, Ali Mahdi Ali Alyami, Ibrahim Mohammed Saleh Almostneer, Fahad Dhafer Alsulayyim, Hussain Saleh Mohammed AL Khamsan, Salem Mahdi Mohammed Alyami, Hussain Ahmed Alyami, Husien Ali Hussein Altheebh, Hadi Ali Hadi Alzuraya
Language: English
Subfield: Emergency Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405874367