Emergency protocols in prehospital emergency medicine in Slovenia

Emergency medicine is a branch of medicine in which prompt and accurate information is of crucial importance, because a patient's survival and the final outcome of a treatment very often depends on it. Therefore the standardization of prehospital emergency service administration with uniform documentation, methods of annotation of technical data as well as uniform gathering and data analysis are necessary. Wanting to process a fair amount of data and specially to disburden personnel, a need for computer aided processing is evident. Application that was developed in strong collaboration with EMS project team and information science engineers definitely improves data quality. Firstly when team members, especially physicians, are constrained to fulfill paper forms and secondly when data are entered into the computer, because all inconsistencies are being reconsidered and corrected if necessary. The developed application also gave the opportunity to the emergency team for prompt and accurate information.