Relating to procedures administered or care provided prior to a patient's arrival at a hospital.
the bandage was developed primarily for a prehospital setting
Example sentencesExamples
It is uncomfortable and adds time and expense to prehospital and emergency department care.
The Scottish Ambulance Service is the sole provider of emergency prehospital ambulance care for the 5.1 million population of Scotland.
Handover at the interface between prehospital and hospital environments should always include a summary of drugs given, and documentation should accurately reflect the treatment given.
We wonder what other ambulance services are doing and whether future recommendations should take into account the prehospital phase of treatment.
But the quality of prehospital and hospital care has to improve.
The exact mechanism of injury and any prehospital treatment must be established.
His vision, determination, and tireless campaigning spearheaded the development of prehospital care and emergency medicine in Britain.
In the letters pages correspondents discuss some unresolved questions in prehospital emergency care.
The mobile unit brought 172 of these to hospital, and prehospital intubation was done in 43% of severely injured patients.
But only a minority of prehospital arrests occur in public places.
These doctors are trained and equipped to provide a high level of medical care in the prehospital environment and are judged against a different set of standards from ‘good Samaritan’ doctors.
In the future, diagnosis may begin at prehospital locations or in the Emergency Department with point-of-care instruments.
Definition of prehospital in US English:
prehospital
adjectiveprēˈhäspidl
Relating to procedures administered or care provided prior to a patient's arrival at a hospital.
the bandage was developed primarily for a prehospital setting
Example sentencesExamples
Handover at the interface between prehospital and hospital environments should always include a summary of drugs given, and documentation should accurately reflect the treatment given.
In the letters pages correspondents discuss some unresolved questions in prehospital emergency care.
The exact mechanism of injury and any prehospital treatment must be established.
In the future, diagnosis may begin at prehospital locations or in the Emergency Department with point-of-care instruments.
But the quality of prehospital and hospital care has to improve.
But only a minority of prehospital arrests occur in public places.
It is uncomfortable and adds time and expense to prehospital and emergency department care.
The Scottish Ambulance Service is the sole provider of emergency prehospital ambulance care for the 5.1 million population of Scotland.
We wonder what other ambulance services are doing and whether future recommendations should take into account the prehospital phase of treatment.
These doctors are trained and equipped to provide a high level of medical care in the prehospital environment and are judged against a different set of standards from ‘good Samaritan’ doctors.
His vision, determination, and tireless campaigning spearheaded the development of prehospital care and emergency medicine in Britain.
The mobile unit brought 172 of these to hospital, and prehospital intubation was done in 43% of severely injured patients.