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Personal Protective Equipment
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection.

Phased contract
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

A contract which provides for two or more distinct phases and can be terminated without fault at the conclusion of any of those phases. The phases may relate to distinct activities such as R&D, prototyping or the production of a test series or execution of a pilot. The contract may specify the conditions under which the next phase will proceed or this may be left to the discretion of the contracting authority.

Physician
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Medical doctor.

Point-of-care testing
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Medical diagnostic testing performed at the time and place of patient care.

Practitioner
Area: Emergency Medical Services

A person actively involved and having experience in a discipline, profession, especially medicine

Practitioner mobile devices and apps
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Portable computing devices (such as a smartphone or tablet computer) and programs which can provide a service to emergency professionals.

Pre-Commercial Procurement
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Procurement of research and development of new innovative solutions before they are commercially available. PCP involves different suppliers competing through different phases of development.

Pre-Commercial Procurement
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

is a method for public purchasers to finance the development of innovative solutions. It is an approach to procuring R&D services2, which involve risk-benefit sharing with the suppliers and developers, but does not constitute State aid. The legal basis for PCP in procurement law are the exemptions in Article 16.F of public procurement Directive 2004/18/EC and Article 24.E of public procurement Directive 2004/17/EC.

Pre-arrival instructions
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Instructions or guidance provided by emergency dispatchers to the individuals making the emergency call.

Pre-hospital environment
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Referred to emergency interventions outside the hospital: street, home, workplace, etc.

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