Emergency Medical Service: Challenges for Occupational Medicine and Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

The (prehospital) emergency medical service (EMS) is changing and is subject to new challenges. The main aim of this special issue is, on the one hand, the presentation of the EMS in international comparison. The evaluation of studies shows again and again, for example, different standards in the training of emergency medical service personnel (EMP). Therefore, you are invited to present common training standards for EMP, structures of EMS, occupational health and safety in EMS, political and social challenges in the context of reviews. On the other hand, tasks, and difficulties due to new technologies should also be presented. Also, the number of (geriatric) patients who must be cared by EMS and in hospital is increasing internationally. What new challenges and special features arise from this and how can the shortage of specialists be evaluated? Additionally, we face the challenge of different approaches to emergency services: choosing wisely, maximal therapy, or something in between - what is the best interest of public health? Futhermore, I would also like to invite you to submit relevant topics and studies to occupational medicine. As part of studies, reviews or meta-analyses assess psychological, physical, infectious exposures and stresses. What workplace interventions can be researched and established specifically for EMP? What are the roles of e.g. personality traits, coping and support in the professional and social context? Finally, the special issue will also assess the impact of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the mental and physical stresses of EMP. What measures can be derived and what do we learn for tomorrow?

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in IJERPH.

Dr. Beatrice Thielmann
Guest Editor

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• paramedic
• prehospital emergency medicine
• occupational safety and health
• stress management
• mental health
• physical strain
• prevention