[Optimized resource mobilization and quality of treatment of severely injured patients through a structured trauma room alarm system].

Background: The treatment of severely injured patients in the trauma resuscitation unit (TRU) requires an interdisciplinary and highly professional trauma team approach. The complete team needs to be waiting for the patient in the TRU on arrival. Treating severely injured patients in the TRU, the trauma team connects the initial preclinical emergency stabilization with the subsequent sophisticated treatment.

[Cancer pain therapy in palliative care patients: knowledge of prehospital emergency physicians in training. Prospective questionnaire-based investigation].

Background: Cancer diseases are often associated with acute and chronic pain. Therefore, cancer pain is a symptom frequently reported by palliative care patients with cancer diseases. Prehospital emergency physicians may be confronted with exacerbation of pain in cancer patients.

[Introduction Course HEMS-Physician - from idea to course concept].

Physicians who take a role as flight physicians in a Helicopter Emergency Medical System (HEMS) will encounter more frequently certain emergencies - such as multiple trauma, mass casualties etc. - compared to physicians in a ground based Emergency Medical System (EMS). Furthermore EMS teams already present on scene have a variance of expectations towards HEMS-Physicians.