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Table 1 All suggested research areas

From: The top five research priorities in physician-provided pre-hospital critical care: a consensus report from a European research collaboration

1

Pre-hospital critical care. Staffing, training and effect

2

Advanced airway management in pre-hospital care

3

Define time window for time-critical interventions

4

Pre-hospital ultrasound

5

Dispatch/activation criteria for physician-manned EMS

6

Integrated information systems

7

Evaluating quality of care

8

Patient safety in the pre-hospital setting

9

Pre-hospital temperature management in critical care patients

10

Monitoring in the pre-hospital setting

11

Fluid resuscitation in shock

12

Efficient and reliable trauma registries

13

Immobilization techniques

14

Pre-hospital management of stroke

15

Where to go with which patient?

16

Emergency cardiac care in the pre-hospital setting

17

Management of haemorrhagic shock

18

Interhospital transport

19

Does further centralization give better outcomes?

20

Goal-directed therapy studies in pre-hospital critical care

21

EMS systems - regionalization of emergency care

22

Validity and impact of pre-hospital assessment

23

Economic impact of EMS

24

Pre-hospital analgesia, new perspectives

25

Major incident management: How can it be improved?

26

Management of severe head injury

27

Pre-hospital recognition and goal-directed therapy of sepsis

28

Paediatric transport solutions

29

Implementation of new guidelines and research findings

30

Effects of pre-hospital care on quality of life

31

Ethical implications in pre-hospital research

32

Pre-hospital care as a steering system for acute patients

33

Lay person interventions before arrival of EMS

34

Communication and interaction between EMS and hospitals

35

Evaluation of future needs in pre-hospital care

36

Pre-hospital thoracotomy