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Emergency care is powerfully aligned with the primary health care agenda as it provides first contact clinical care for those who are acutely ill or injured. Pre-hospital and facility-based emergency care is a high impact and cost-effective form of secondary prevention.
- 16 June 2012 Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care
The Guidelines for essential trauma care seek to set...
- Who Tools for Strengthening Emergency Care Systems
WHO has created a suite of tools and resources that can be...
- Who Medical Emergency Checklist
Overview . The WHO Medical Emergency Checklist is a modified...
- Quality of Care
Equitable – providing care that does not vary in quality on...
- Who International Registry for Trauma and Emergency Care
Systematic facility-based data collection on acute illness...
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- ICRC Basic Emergency Care
Developed by WHO and ICRC, in collaboration with the...
- Technical Specifications
This WHO-IAEA joint publication takes its origin from a...
- 16 June 2012 Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care
The WHO Emergency Care Toolkit (ECT) is an open access bundle of interventions, developed to be implemented in emergency units within hospitals, particularly in resource limited settings. The main aim of the ECT is to support systematic care of the acutely ill and injured within hospitals.
Essential Resources for Emergency Care (EREC) manual – includes guidance on essential services, medications, supplies at each level of the health system, including an emergency care
30 paź 2018 · Developed by WHO and ICRC, in collaboration with the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, Basic Emergency Care (BEC): Approach to the acutely ill and injured is an open-access training course for first contact healthcare providers who manage acute illness and injury with limited resources. Integrating the guidance from WHO Emergency ...
2 paź 2024 · All around the world, acutely ill and injured people seek care every day. Frontline providers manage children and adults with medical, surgical and obstetric emergencies, including injuries and infections, heart attacks and strokes, asthma and acute complications of pregnancy.
17 lip 2024 · The development of global guidelines ensuring the appropriate use of evidence represents one of the core functions of WHO. A WHO guideline is defined broadly as any information product developed by WHO that contains recommendations for clinical practice or public health policy.
BEC focuses on a systematic approach to every patient and addresses injury and three key syndromes (difficulty breathing, shock and altered mental status ), amplifying clinical recommendations from the WHO IMAI District Clinician Manual, WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children, WHO Emergency Triage and Treatment and WHO Integrated ...