Thoughts on the development of emergency and first aid system in rural China / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the contradiction between the construction of backward first aid system and the demand for emergency services in rural areas in China is increasingly serious. In order to further improve the quality and efficiency of first aid, the state has vigorously promoted the construction of the " Five Centers" , namely chest pain centers, stroke centers, trauma centers, critical maternal treatment centers, and critically ill children and neonatal treatment centers in rural areas, in an effort to develop an efficient rural emergency service network. The authors collected relevant policy documents and summarized practices of the " Five Centers" construction. On such basis, they referred to experiences of overseas emergency systems and medical rescue centers, and made focused analysis for on the functionality and mechanism of the " Five Centers" in building an innovative first-aid system, in terms of internal and external environment, institutional function positioning, resource integration, and operation mechanism. In view of the integration among " Five Centers" , pre-hospital emergency and in-hospital first aid in rural areas, information construction, personnel first aid capacity building and interest allocation, policy recommendations are proposed.