Between the urgency to save and the duty to comfort

• Filipe Melo ^[1] ; Margarida Reis Santos ^[1] ; Mauro Mota ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidade Do Porto

     Universidade Do Porto

     Santo Ildefonso, Portugal

     
  2. [2] Instituto Politécnico de Viseu

     Instituto Politécnico de Viseu

     Viseu (São José), Portugal

     
• Localización: Millenium, ISSN-e 1647-662X, Nº. Extra 23, 2026
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Entre la urgencia de salvar y el deber de consolar
  • Entre a urgência de salvar e o dever de confortar
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• Resumen

  • In the pre-hospital setting, caring for trauma patients requires rapid, urgent decision-making, technical precision, and the ability to manage uncertainty. The priority is, of course, to save lives, which involves ensuring airway patency and protection, maintaining respiration and circulation, controlling bleeding, providing adequate immobilisation, and ensuring safe transport (Mota et al., 2021). However, in this highly complex scenario, there is one aspect that is often overlooked: the comfort of the trauma victim receiving pre-hospital care....