Prehospital Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities

Prehospital emergency medicine, ranging from disaster situations to individual EMS missions, is often overlooked when topics are addressed in international literature. For a quick and efficient response to an emergency scenario, pre-hospital emergency medical personnel must receive high-quality education and training. Pathologies or organizational problems are then described from an emergency department perspective; however, the patient's "story" often begins with calling 911 or 112. To tackle the challenges, healthcare professionals must be educated in a way that is comprehensive, cooperative, and creative. They must also remain updated with the most recent advancements and methods in the profession.

This special issue aims at giving prehospital medicine in all its bandwidth room to report findings to an international audience of readers. It should provide a platform to address current gaps of knowledge from various angles and should feature high-quality research outlining recent developments and significant achievements have been made and need to be made in order to address the pre hospital emergency care more effectively. The authors are urged to point out the key concerns in the thread and provide solutions.

Authors of research from or on prehospital emergency medicine should consider submitting their manuscript that cover the education of healthcare professionals in the prehospital emergency medicine field to this special edition. The possibilities of topics are as multifaceted as emergency medicine itself, ranging from disaster situations, trauma, internal medicine emergencies, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, organizational problems, but also novel concepts and ideas.