Pre-hospital care serves as a bridge between the emergency site and the hospital or facility where appropriate treatment can be provided, with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality of individuals in acute life-threatening conditions. Proper and timely pre-hospital care will increase the individual’s access to health care services because response by trained care providers and transfer to the healthcare facility will be facilitated. Through the ABCDE approach, patient will be stabilized enough to be transported for definitive treatment.
The video Ambulansya de Paa showed how failure of providing pre-hospital care will significantly aggravate health outcomes and quality of life. It is a frustrating fact that many Filipinos are not given appropriate management because they are not at least provided with pre-hospital care, which could have been the first step to access health care services. It is therefore important to improve pre-hospital care if we aim to improve access and delivery of healthcare services.