A Study on Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

An emergency medical service (or EMS) is a service providing out-of-hospital acute care and transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient believes constitute a medical emergency. EMS is an intricate system, and each component of this system has an essential role to perform as part of a coordinated and seamless system of emergency medical care. This paper studies about the needs of emergency medical services and to suggest the ways to improve and promote the awareness about basic life support and first aid training. The study was conducted among the corporate people, Chennai, and to implement corrective measures. The descriptive study is conducted using a structured questionnaire with “Likert scale”. The questionnaire is framed in a facilitating manner to obtain clear and clarified response. The sample size of the project is 120. Non probability random sampling method is chosen to select the samples. Data gathered is analyzed using statistical tool regression, correlation, chi-square, t-test.