Emergency medical services in Portugal

The Portuguese Integrated Emergency Medical Service (IEMS) (Portuguese: Sistema Integrado de Emergência Médica, SIEM) is managed by INEM (Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica) that depends on Ministry of Health (Ministério da Saúde).^[1] It works like other SAMU/IEMS networks of Europe or Brazil.

Mobile Resources

INEM's SBV ambulance

INEM's VMER

• BLS Basic Life Support Ambulances-Ambulâncias AEM / ABSC.^[2] BLS ambulances are staffed by two ambulance technicians (Técnicos de Emergência), they are based in Fire Departments and INEM bases.
• ILS Immediate Life Support Ambulances-Ambulâncias SIV.^[3] The crew consists of a nurse and a technician.
• Fly car-Resuscitation and Emergency Medical Vehicles-VMER Viaturas Médicas de Emergência e Reanimação ^[4] staffed by an emergency physician and a nurse.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Ambulances-Ambulância de Suporte Avançado de Vida Pediátrico with a physician, a nurse and a technician (for interfacility transport).
• Helicopter Emergency Medical Service-Helicópteros de Emergência médica^[5] with two pilots, one physician and one nurse.
• Medical Emergency Motorcycle-Motociclo de Emergência Médica^[6] crewed by only one Emergency Technician.
• Disaster Intervention Vehicle-Veículo de Intervenção em Catástrofe^[7] these units transport ALS equippment, they can install a small Field Hospital and a Mobile Communications Central.

Portuguese CODU/SAMU Medical Emergencies Regulation Centers

In Portugal, the emergency telephone number for emergency medical service is 1-1-2. When someone calls 1-1-2, free of charge, it is directed to a PSP emergency central, and it will direct, in the case it is an Medical Emergency, to one of the following CODU (Centro de Orientação de Doentes Urgentes - Medical Emergencies Regulation Center)

CODU de Lisboa

CODU de Porto

CODU de Coimbra

CODU de Faro

Portuguese INEM Schools

Organization in Portuguese Atlantic Islands

See also

• Health in Portugal

References

1. ↑ "Decreto-Lei n.o 220/2007 de 29 de Maio. Diário da República, 1.a série—N.o 103—29 de Maio de 2007" (PDF) (in Portuguese). 29 May 2007. Retrieved 2010-12-20. 
2. ↑ "Ambulâncias SBV do INEM". Retrieved 2010-12-20. 
3. ↑ "Ambulâncias SIV do INEM". Retrieved 2010-12-20. 
4. ↑ "VMER do INEM". Retrieved 2010-12-20. 
5. ↑ "Helicóptero do INEM". Retrieved 2010-12-20. 
6. ↑ "Motociclo do INEM". Retrieved 2015-03-08. 
7. ↑ "VIC INEM". Retrieved 2015-03-08. 

External links

• INEM
• [Serviço de Atençao Medica Urgente]