[Care of the injured in the prehospital phase--experience of the emergency medical service in Tesanj from May 1992 to the time of the Dayton Agreement].

In the introduction are given the basic remarks about the significance of the phased medical treatment of the injured persons. Developing the problems, the focus is intended on the first phase-pre hospitalised treatment. In the first years of the war the percentage of 19% of the injured persons medically treated, 18% treated by co-fighters and neighbours as well as 9.3% of those who were treated by themselves is not encouraging. This relation was being changed during the war, but in a total depiction, taking into consideration the war years in global, there had always been a lot of the "self-picked up". Most of the wounded people would have been alive, if they had been offered by the adequate medical care on time in the pre-hospitalised phase.