Health Care

Emergency Medical Services

Services specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for the emergency care of patients.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

Services specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for the emergency care of patients.

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Synonyms

22 entry terms
  • Emergency Services, Medical
  • Medical Services, Emergency
  • Services, Emergency Medical
  • Emergency Medical Service
  • Emergency Service, Medical
  • Medical Emergency Service
  • Medical Emergency Services
  • Medical Service, Emergency
  • Service, Emergency Medical
  • Service, Medical Emergency
  • Services, Medical Emergency
  • Emergency Care
  • Emergency Care, Prehospital
  • Emergency Health Services
  • Emergicenters
  • Prehospital Emergency Care
  • Emergency Health Service
  • Emergicenter
  • Health Service, Emergency
  • Health Services, Emergency
  • Service, Emergency Health
  • Services, Emergency Health

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Aspects Covered

11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

Public Law 93-154

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History Note

80; was EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES 1968-79

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Previous Indexing

  • Emergencies (1966-1967)
  • First Aid (1966-1967)

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Tree Number

  1. N02.421.297w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Emergency Medical Services. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004632. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004632
  2. Emergency Medical Services. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_services
  3. Emergency Medical Services. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860447