A Primer on Pre-Hospital Emergency Care, Launched at IHC Delhi
Our first primer on pre-hospital emergency care launched on 28 September at the India Habitat Centre — translating ten years of trauma-care evidence into a usable playbook.
Why a primer now
Roughly half of India's road fatalities die before reaching a hospital. Most are preventable with the right pre-hospital chain. Yet first responders, ambulance crews and trauma centres still operate from different playbooks. The primer stitches them into one.
What's inside
- Field protocolsFirst-responder triage, airway and bleed-control sequences.
- Ambulance handoffStandardised vitals card from scene to hospital.
- Trauma centre intakePre-arrival packet to compress door-to-imaging time.
- System metricsWhat every state EMS should track and publish.
Voices at the launch
“We've waited a decade for a primer that respects what happens at the roadside and what we need at the door. This is that primer.”
How to use it
Medical colleges can plug it into their emergency rotation. State health departments can adopt it as a baseline EMS module. NGOs and corporate first-aid programmes can lift its decision trees directly.
Bring the primer to your hospital
Free, open-access and ready to plug into state-level EMS training modules.
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India's first integrated primer on pre-hospital trauma care, co-authored with AIIMS Trauma Centre.