Future perspectives in prehospital emergency medicine
Åke Erling L Andresen, Ulf-Erik Kongsgaard, Thomas Kristiansen, Hans Morten Lossius · 2026
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Åke Erling Andresen and three co-authors wrote a 2026 essay on the future of emergency medicine before the hospital. Such care covers first checks, stabilizing treatment, and safe transport of people with acute illness or injury. As hospitals centralize expert care, ambulance teams must bridge longer gaps and sort patients to the right level of care.
The authors see strain ahead. Populations are aging, with more long-term illness, while staff are scarce, above all in rural areas. The COVID-19 pandemic showed how fast both ambulance and hospital capacity can be swamped. New tools, including smart software, will also change the work. The essay weighs how these forces meet and what systems must plan for. It calls for stronger back-up plans and new ways to use scarce staff.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Åke Erling L Andresen, Ulf-Erik Kongsgaard, Thomas Kristiansen, Hans Morten Lossius |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |