Vaitkaitis Dinas
Department of Disaster Medicine, Kaunas University of Medicine, Eiveniu 4, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Resuscitation. 2008 Mar;76(3):329-32. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.07.028. Epub 2007 Sep 5.
In Lithuania pre-hospital medical services were started at the end of the 19th century. Emergency care for patients is provided free of charge and funded from a Compulsory Health Insurance Fund and by Government. Ambulance response target times are 15 min in urban areas and up to 30 min in rural areas. Personnel on ambulances consist of nurses and physicians. In the near future it is expected that paramedics will replace ambulance drivers. The emergency medical system is in a transition period: Admission departments are developing into emergency departments, residency programmes for emergency medicine are being prepared, and emergency medicine is going to be recognised as a separate specialty.
在立陶宛，院前医疗服务始于19世纪末。为患者提供的紧急护理是免费的，资金来自强制健康保险基金和政府。救护车的响应目标时间在城市地区为15分钟，在农村地区最长为30分钟。救护车上的人员包括护士和医生。预计在不久的将来，护理人员将取代救护车司机。紧急医疗系统正处于转型期：收治科室正在发展成为急诊科，急诊医学住院医师培训项目正在筹备中，急诊医学将被认可为一个独立的专科。
