Amaya Burgos-Esteban, Manuel Quintana-Diaz, Valvanera Cordón-Hurtado, Marta Giménez-Luzuriaga, Iván Santolalla-Arnedo, Regina Ruiz de Viñaspre-Hernández, Vicente Gea-Caballero, Jose Angel Santos-Sánchez, Noelia Navas-Echazarreta, Antonio Rodríguez-Calvo, Pilar Sánchez-Conde, Raúl Juárez-Vela
INTRODUCTION: The Spanish Emergency Medical Services, according to the model we know today, were formed during the 80s and 90s of the 20th century. The Health Emergency Service (EMS), 061 La Rioja, began to assist the population of La Rioja in November 1999. An essential part of the mission of the SES is the provision of care and the transfer of critical patients using advanced life support unit (ALSU) techniques. In daily practice, out-of-hospital emergency services are faced with situations in which they must deal with the care of serious or critically ill patients, in which the possibility of being able to channel peripheral vascular access as part of ALSU quickly may be difficult or impossible...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health