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Search Filters for Prehospital Care, Paramedicine and Emergency Medical Dispatch

Search filters are pre-prepared searches on commonly used topics than enable effective and efficient searching by choosing the best keywords and thesaural terms for you.

Search Filter - Paramedicine

EBSCO MEDLINE / CINAHL 

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  • MEDLINE - Number of hits – March 2025 - 149,194
  • CINAHL - Number of hits – March 2025 - 69,553

*Ambulances/ OR *Emergency Medical Technicians/ OR *Air Ambulances/ OR *emergency medical services/ OR XB (paramedic* OR ems OR emt OR prehospital OR pre-hospital OR first responder* OR emergency medical technician* OR emergency medical service* OR ambulance* OR HEMS OR field triage OR out-of-hospital)

OVID EMBASE / EMCARE 

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  • EMBASE - Number of hits – March 2025 - 186,796
  • EMCARE - Number of hits – March 2025- 60,744

*ambulance/ OR *rescue personnel/ OR *air medical transport/ OR *emergency medicine/ OR (paramedic* OR ems  OR emt  OR prehospital  OR pre hospital  OR first responder* OR emergency medical technician* OR emergency medical service$ OR ambulance*  OR HEMS OR field triage OR out-of-hospital).ti,ab

Updated 29 March 2025