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The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS), is a medical retrieval initiative operating in the West of Scotland. It provides patients in remote and rural areas with rapid access to the skills of a consultant in emergency or intensive care medicine as well as facilitating transfers to larger, better equipped city hospitals. The team respond to calls 24 hours a day by road and also by air where services are provided in partnership with the Scottish Ambulance Service utilising both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.〔http://www.emrs.scot.nhs.uk/ EMRS Official website〕 The EMRS now operate as part of ScotSTAR, the Scottish national retrieval service, sharing a bespoke base at Glasgow Airport. ==History== The EMRS was formed in 2004 after a consultation between NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the Scottish Government Health Department and the Scottish Ambulance Service. The EMRS was based at Glasgow City Heliport and initially operated only in the Argyll and Clyde area. The EMRS attended 40 patients over the 12 months. In 2007 the service was extended to cover three rural general hospitals and 13 community hospitals as part of an 18-month trial funded with £1.59million. The success of the service saw its operating zone expanded throughout the West coast of Scotland and the EMRS now operates from Stranraer in the South to Stornoway in the North. In March 2010, the Scottish Government acknowledged that due to its continuing success, the service would be further enhanced by the addition of a second team, operational from October 2010. The second team increased the number of participating consultants and Doctors from eight to fifteen. Annual running costs were now in the region of £2 million.〔 In June 2014 they began to routinely carry a stock of O negative blood to allow transfusion earlier when responding to emergencies. During the period of the 2014 Commonwealth Games a third team of medics was available.〔 the staff of the service had expanded to include 27 part-time consultants and had completed more than 3,000 retrievals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emergency Medical Retrieval Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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