Prehospital pharmacology: anti-emetics.
Although there is a paucity of literature on anti-emetic administration in the prehospital setting, paramedic delivery of an appropriate agent according to protocol can decrease the time to treatment for hundreds of thousands of emergency department patients annually who access 9-1-1 and present with nausea and vomiting.
Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA.
David
D
Jaslow
Anne
A
Klimke
D000932:Antiemetics / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States
D000932:Antiemetics