Integrated Clinical Clerkship in Emergency Medicine AY 2021- 2022

The provision of timely and appropriate pre-hospital care indeed has an impact on delaying progression, prevention of complications and improving the outcome of the patient's condition. This has been proven time and again in the common scenarios of trauma/motor-vehicular accidents and other acute life-threatening conditions where mortalities are prevented by early intervention addressing the ABCDEs and transfers to well-equipped facilities are made possible by availability of transport vehicles and first responders on the grass roots level. There has been an apparent decrease in disability and a higher rate of survival due to interventions done during pre-hospital care. However, in order for timely and appropriate pre-hospital care to be effectively administered, there has to be accessibility to and from geographically-challenged areas, adequate training of health professionals, provision of resources, as well as prioritization of rural or primary care health units. There has to be a multisectoral effort to address these barriers in order to improve healthcare delivery in the community setting.