Author/Editor		Grmec, Štefek; Mally, Štefan
Title		Emergency medicine in Slovenia - emergency center, prehospital emergency medicine and academic emergency medicine
Type		članek
Source		In: Bošan-Kilibarda I, editor. VI. hrvatski kongres hitne medicine s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem: Zagreb, 19.-20. studenoga 2009. Zagreb: Hrvatski liječnički zbor, Hrvatsko društvo za hitnu medicinu,
Vol. and No.		Letnik 131, št. 4
Publication year		2009
Volume		str. 16-20
Language		eng
Abstract		Public health service is organized in such a manner so as to ensure all the inhabitants of the Republic of Slovenia the emergency medical assistance available at all times, including emergency transport and provision of emergency medicinal products as soon as possible and as close to the date of their manufacture as possible and during transport. Emergency medical assistance means the implementation of necessary measures by doctors and theirteams with persons whose Iife is imminently threatened due to illness or injury and persons, respectively, who could be affected by such a risk in a short period of time according to the symptoms. Emergency calls are received and processed by the emergency medical assistance service which forms an integral part of the public health service network. Emergency patients with Iife-threatening trauma or disease are treated by prehospital emergency physicians at the scene and during transport. Emergency patients are guaranteed to be reached by an appropriate emergency vehicle and a respective crew within 10 minutes in 80% of the responses and within 15 minutes in 95% ofcases. In Slovenia was established 30 years ago the so-called Franco-German system, with a highly developed pre-hospital emergency physician service and interdisciplinary hospital-based emergency medicine on different departments (trauma center, department for internal intensive medicine, department of ananstesiology, department for neurology and pediatrics department (1). This gap is now closing fast because of the rapid advancement of hospital-based emergency medicine in Slovenia. In-hospital emergency medicine has been reorganized in many hospitals during the Iast few years. Economic and quality arguments have initiated the development of departments for emergency medicinein Slovenia. In the future, this will lead to new qualification criteria for physicians working in these departments. (Abs. trunc. at 2000 ch.)
Descriptors		EMERGENCY MEDICINE