Emergency Medical Services

Emergency medical service – a form of providing medical care at emergence of diseases and the conditions demanding emergency medical care for prevention of essential harm to health or elimination of threat to life.

The EMS organization, is the medical organization rendering round-the-clock emergency medical care to the adult and children's population at menacing life (the patient or people around) conditions, accidents, a sharp serious illness, as on a scene, and along the line.
All stations and offices of an EMS are equipped with automated control systems, the systems allowing a message satellite monitoring behind motor transport of the medical organization and systems by fixing record of reception of a call.
Order of rendering of an emergency medical service

Availability of the population to service EMS is provided with means of city and mobile telecommunication.
1. The medical assistant's mobile team of EMS includes in the structure of the medical assistant (the expert with the secondary medical education, having the diploma in «medical business», the certificate of the expert – the document, granting to the individual the right to carry out medical activity in the specialty, further – the certificate), the hospital attendant and the driver.

2. The medical mobile team of EMS includes in the structure of the doctor (the expert with the higher medical education, having the diploma in «medical business» or "pediatrics" and the certificate in "emergency medical service"), the medical assistant (the expert with the secondary medical education, having the diploma in «medical business», the certificate), the hospital attendant and the driver.

3. The specialized mobile team of EMS includes in the structure of the doctor (the expert with the higher medical education, having the diploma in «medical business» or "pediatrics", the certificate of the doctor in "emergency medical service" and specialization in a profile of a specialized brigade), the medical assistant (the expert with the secondary medical education, having the diploma in «medical business», the certificate), the hospital attendant and the driver.

At receipt of a call in EMS the following data are fixed:
• surname, name, patronymic, age and sex of the patient;
• short data on a condition of the patient and circumstances of accident or disease;
• the exact address and phone, a code of a door of an entrance, and also rough data on journey to the location of the patient.

The arrived call is processed on character, a profile of a disease and transferred to a mobile team of the EMS. Mobile teams go:
for rendering of First Pomoshcha and transportation of patients in case of accidents, traumas and poisonings;
at diseases, including mental, menacing to life and health of the patient and persons surrounding them;
at childbirth and complications of a course of pregnancy;
for transportation on hospitalization of the patients demanding emergency medical care, including on a call of specialists of the organizations of primary medicosanitary help.

The regulations of departure of brigades of the EMS from the moment of receiving a call before transfer for service to a brigade of the EMS are defined by the list of categories of urgency of calls according to the annex to these rules:
1) 1-3 category of urgency – about 5 minutes;
2) 4-5 category of urgency - about 20 minutes;
3) The 6th category of urgency – till 30 minutes.