[A model system for emergency medicine for Mexico City]

Trauma and sudden illnesses already represent a capital problem of public health in our country. Since the social and financial costs that we must pay are very high, it is necessary to create an emergency medical system that categorizes both, the patients according to this aims and the available means in order to give them comprehensive and definitive care. This categorization implies quick and appropriate transportation from accidents to the ideal hospital facility and also the prehospital medical care at the scene and during transportation. The system should include two prehospital and two hospital levels, and the highest level being the keystone of the whole. Education and research are fundamental for the harmonic development of the system.