A guidance document for medical teams responding to health emergencies in armed conflicts and other insecure environments
Publication date: 2021
This publication, also referred to as the “Red Book”, offers a guidance framework and introduces additional verification requirements for medical teams preparing for or involved in responding to health emergencies in armed conflict and other insecure environments.
Classification and minimum standards for emergency medical teams
Publication date: 2021
This publication serves as a practical guide for teams and aims to compliment emergency response systems, fostering seamless collaboration with all emergency response actors and networks. Over the next few years, our aim is to see an increase in national and international emergency medical teams that meet these standards and continue to serve as essential components of a country's emergency preparedness and response to save lives, improve health and serve the most vulnerable in need.
Emergency medical teams: coordination handbook
Publication date: 2018
This revised edition of the handbook represents the next phase in strengthening emergency medical team (EMT) coordination at the field level. Following a collaborative review process in early 2017 involving EMT stakeholders from all regions, this revised edition aims to provide a practical guide with recommended procedures and standardized resources to ensure the establishment and effective implementation of EMT coordination in the field. Major revisions include more prominent positioning of the EMT life cycle within the handbook and a readjustment of all terminology to ensure equal applicability for all EMT coordination cell users, regardless of scenario.
Minimum technical standards and recommendations for rehabilitation in emergency medical teams
Publication date: 2016
This document is based on collective experience in rehabilitation during responses to recent large-scale emergencies and also on published data. The purpose of this document is to emergency medical teams (EMTs) on building or strengthening their capacity for and work in rehabilitation within defined coordination mechanisms. The standards and recommendations given in this document will ensure that EMTs, both national and international, will better prevent patient complications and ensuing impairment and ensure a continuum of care beyond their departure from the affected area.