As an option, those with substantial prior experience may proceed to a degree, following two years of additional study. Since 2006, the evolving legal standard of training for Polish paramedics is a three-year bachelor's degree. It appears unlikely that the proposed changes will have any effect on Standard compliance. While plans are in place for the restructuring of some aspects of the EMS system, these are mostly related to staffing configurations and deployment, which are not covered by the technical Standard. There are also no immediate plans to do so. While design and technical standards are voluntarily complied with, there is virtually no compliance with the visual identity standards described in the Standard. Ambulances and equipment used do comply with the technical standards outlined. Poland has voluntarily adopted the majority of the specifications for ambulances of European Standard CEN 1789. Paramedic-led ambulances will respond to most emergency calls, as in the Anglo-American model, with physicians being dispatched mostly to those calls where there is a potential critical threat to life. Each ambulance team, also has a dedicated driver who is usually also trained paramedic. The variation occurs in that the ambulance crew may consist either paramedics or emergency nurses, or some mix of the two roles. Transportation to a hospital may, or may not, be an outcome depending on the decision of the team leader, respectively paramedic or physician. Unlike the German system, the physicians do not respond in separate vehicles, instead staffing the appropriate types of ambulances directly. All these doctors are often referred to as Emergency Physicians. Due to shortage of specialists in emergency medicine, selected other medical specialists (anesthesiology and intensive care, internal diseases, general surgery, pediatrics, pediatric surgery, orthopaedics and traumatology) are allowed to work as ambulance doctors. Emergency medicine has been recognized as a medical specialty since 1999. The paramedics teams are supllemented by gradually diminishing number of physician-led teams (so called S ambulnaces), which staff includes physician. Paramedics-led team (so called P ambulances) respond to most emergency calls. Standards Operating system Īt the moment, the operating system of Polish EMS is similar of the Austrian- Franco-German-Spanish delivery model - Integrated EMS of Public Health (IEMS). Since 2018 emergency ambulances that operates in PRM, that is Polish 112 and 999 emergency numbers, are operated by public entities only (mostly voivodeships and cities dependent organisations). While in Polish public hospitals and clinics NFZ common public insurance is required, PRM medical services in ambulances and EDs are completely free for everyone. State Medical Rescue ( Polish: Państwowe Ratownictwo Medyczne, PRM) in Poland is a system of free public emergency healthcare established by Ustawa o Państwowym Ratownictwie Medycznym ( State Medical Rescue Act), including ambulance service and Emergency Departments (EDs). Mercedes-Benz resuscitation ambulance (Type R) used by Polish emergency services
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