Monday, December 3, 2012

Study of Czech Republic EMS preparedness: large number of injuries and casualties - bus accident


Researcher: Ondrej Prudel

Czech Republic became an important transit country for international road transport after joining the EU. This led to an increasing traffic situation with many buses on the roads. My research forms part of a university theses analyses situation of Czech EMS, and how it is solved with large number of bus accident injuries and casualties. Aims of the research are to analyse the continous process of eduacation of paramedics, such as: drills, EMS equipment, overall preparedness, how was bus accidents solved in the past (triage, transportation, crisis preparedness), differents between drills and true situation.

Hypothesis of project are:
1) Czech EMS are prepared to solve bus accident situation, and
2) Drill trainings help to improve preparedness of local EMS

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