Background Out-of-hospital emergency care (OHEC), also known as prehospital care, has
been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality from serious illness. We sought to summarize …

Insufficient awareness of the centrality of pathology and laboratory medicine (PALM) to a
functioning health-care system at policy and governmental level, with the resultant …

Background The effort to increase access to emergency and surgical care in low-income
countries has received global attention. While most of the literature on this issue focuses on …

Background: The burden of stroke in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is large and
increasing, challenging the already stretched health-care services. Aims and Objectives: To …

Critical care in low‐income countries remains rudimentary. When defined as all aspects of
care for patients with sudden, serious, reversible disease, critical care is not disease or age …

Background While there is a need for good quality care for patients with serious reversible
disease in all countries in the world, Emergency and Critical Care tends to be one of the …

Objective To estimate the global and national burden of emergency conditions, and
compare them to emergency care usage rates. Methods We coded all 291 Global Burden of …

Objective There are currently no metrics for measuring population-level burden of
emergency medical diseases (EMDs). This study presents an analysis of the burden of …

Abstract This White Paper has been formally accepted for support by the International
Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) and by the World Federation of Intensive and …

Background Road traffic injuries are a major global public health problem. Improvements in
pre-hospital trauma care can help minimize mortality and morbidity from road traffic injuries …