Community stories

Quality monitoring breathed new life into this emergency nurse’s career and catapulted two EMS centres in Tuscany onto the international awards stage. The good news is, Cristina Riganti is not done learning and growing.

Here you can read reports received by the Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Centre of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine between 26 April 2022 and 19 July 2023. In each case, paramedics attend to a patient with suspected acute stroke while the war continues around them.

Battling to reduce their on-scene time when attending to stroke, Madrid’s SUMMA 112 undertook research about the impact of prenotification management in their complex city. The results yielded insights about old problems – and suggested new solutions.

Paramedic Mateusz Pitiło of Wałbrzych ambulance service shares the story of his stroke journey.

When a highly motivated stroke team joins forces with a highly motivated team of paramedics, it results in better outcomes for patients, and diamond awards all round.

The stories of two rescue volunteers, 100 years apart, provide clues to the beginning and the future of prehospital care in Hungary, whose national ambulance service has swept the board in the 2023 EMS Angels Awards.