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.