emergency medical services

type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and transport to definitive care
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emergency medical services

Summary

emergency medical services ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,181 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • emergency medical services's field of work was emergency medicine[2].
  • emergency medical services is a type of medical service[3].
  • emergency medical services is a type of emergency service[4].
  • emergency medical services's Commons category is recorded as Emergency medical services[5].
  • 1887 marks the founding of emergency medical services[6].
  • emergency medical services's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Emergency medical services[7].
  • emergency medical services's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[8].
  • emergency medical services's topic has template is recorded as Template:Emergency medical services[9].
  • emergency medical services's practiced by is recorded as emergency medical technician[10].
  • emergency medical services's vehicle normally used is recorded as ambulance[11].
  • emergency medical services's P10203 is recorded as 3604[12].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include medical service[3] and emergency service[4].

Origins

1887 marks the founding of emergency medical services[6].

Why It Matters

emergency medical services ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,181 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . All Science Journal Classification Codes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception +1887-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Field of work emergency medicine
    Inception
    Subclass of medical service, emergency service
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 28666, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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