# Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

- Link: https://sifsof.com/clinical-apps/emergency-medical-services-ems/
- Published: 2020-03-21T23:23:44+00:00
- Author: Developer

An Emergency Medical Service (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.

Healthcare practitioners (doctors, nurses, etc.) working in EMS perform such duties
as IV and IO cannulation (to insert a range of drugs such as morphine), administration
of the necessary drugs depending on the condition of the patient, airway procedures,
CPAP, analgesic administration, cardiac monitoring, manual defibrillation intubation
and other skills such as performing a cricothyrotomy.

ALS (Advance Life Support) provider may perform advanced procedures and skills on
a patient involving invasive and non-invasive procedures including:

 * Intravenous cannulation (IV)
 * Interosseous (IO) access and Intraosseous infusion
 * Surgical Cricothyrotomy
 * Needle Cricothyrotomy
 * Needle decompression of Tension Pneumothorax
 * Advanced medication administration through parental and enteral routes (IV, IO,
   PO, PR, ET, SL, topical, and transdermal)

Some of the above-mentioned procedures are invasive as they require injections. 
Despite their apparent simplicity, these procedures can be quickly complexified 
due to several factors causing the to-be-injected veins undetectable, including:
Dark skin color, irritated elders skin, babies’ skin, burnt skins, etc.

In such cases, [vein finders](https://sifsof.com/product-category/vein-finder-probe/)
are definitely life-saving, especially in the setting of Emergency Medical Services(
EMS), including ambulance services, where there is no time to waste on unsuccessful
injections, particularly when the medical staff is doing their best to ease the 
pain of the patients.

A great example of a very helpful vein detector in such situations is the [SIFVEIN-2.1](https://sifsof.com/product/portable-vein-detector-vein-finder-sifvein-2-1/).
It’s a light, easy to disassemble and fold, [portable vein viewer](https://sifsof.com/product-category/vein-finder-probe/portable-vein-finder/).
These specifications make the vein illuminator super convenient to take in the EMS
vehicle regardless of the time or place of need.

**Reference:[What is EMS?](https://dchealth.dc.gov/service/what-ems)

 * ![Handheld Infrared Vein Finder SIFVEIN-7.0 main pic](https://sifsof.com/wp-content/
   uploads/2019/11/SIFVEIN-7.0-2-300x300.jpg)
 * Handheld Infrared Vein Finder SIFVEIN-7.0
 * ![Handheld Medical Vein Finder SIFVEIN-6.12 main](https://sifsof.com/wp-content/
   uploads/2019/10/SIFVEIN-6.2-300x300.jpg)
 * Handheld Medical Vein Finder SIFVEIN-6.12
 * ![Portable Clinic Handheld Infrared Transilluminator Vein Detector : SIFVEIN-
   2.1 main pic](https://sifsof.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SIFVEIN-2.1-300x300.
   jpg)
 * Portable Clinic Handheld Infrared Transilluminator Vein Detector : SIFVEIN-2.1

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medical staff to perform their procedures and clinical applications, the information
contained in this article is for consideration only. SIFSOF is not responsible neither
for the misuse of the device nor for the wrong or random generalization of the device
in all clinical applications or procedures mentioned in our articles. Users must
have the proper training and skills to perform the procedure with each vein finder
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