Emergency Telemedical Dispatching Centers the Flow Chart of French S.A.M.U.

Extract

For one hundred years medical and hospital care have developed as telecommunications have been disseminated throughout the industrialized societies.

Telecommunications have a number of important contributions to make in emergency medicine:

1. To permit reporting of all illness or incident to the rescue and medical services.

2. To permit physicians to offer advice and communicate with the patient and/or his rescuers or paramedical attendants.

3. To permit direct observation of the patient's condition by the physician through telemetry of the E.C.G., etc.

4. To permit co-ordination between rescue services and receiving hospitals and between district hospitals and regional centres.