Emergency medical service. When to call?
Call in cases of:
- life threat, heart problems or breathing difficulties;
- manifestation of other acute breathing or circulatory system problems;
- choking;
- loss of consciousness;
- body seizures;
- acute pain (heart, abdomen, head);
- drowsiness, delayed reaction;
- sudden numbness in the limbs, face, impaired vision or speech;
- blunt trauma or injury, sexual abuse;
- multiple bodily injury (after a car accident, falling from a height, etc.);
- bleeding;
- overheating or hypothermia;
- foreign bodies, acids or alkalis getting into the eyes;
- overdose of drugs or narcotics, gas poisoning, chemicals;
- allergic reactions, anaphylactic shocks;
- manifestation mental and behavioural disorders;
- rashes;
- vomiting, diarrhoea;
- drowning;
- animal or insect bites;
- frostbite or burns;
- increase or drop in blood sugar levels;
- pregnancy complications or when childbirth begins;
- the need to confirm the fact of death or birth.