Pawłowski Witold, Goniewicz Krzysztof, Goniewicz Mariusz, Czerski Robert, Lasota Dorota. Emergency Medical Services in Poland during mass events and disasters - competence and challenges. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(4):396-404. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1237574 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5452 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/864265 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license (Http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.04.2018. Revised: 12.04.2018. Accepted: 30.04.2018. Emergency Medical Services in Poland during mass events and disasters - competence and challenges Witold Pawłowski¹, Krzysztof Goniewicz1, 2, Mariusz Goniewicz³, Robert Czerski², Dorota Lasota4 ¹ Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Disaster Medicine ² Polish Air Force Academy, Faculty of National Security and Logistics ³ Medical University of Lublin, Department of Emergency Medicine 4 Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Abstract Disasters are unusual conditions, exceed the limits of normal human activity, in a moment the storm infrastructure, equipment, bring chaos and panic. In cases of mass accidents and disasters becomes a necessity to organize proper medical aid. With each passing second after the accident reduced the chances of effective assistance. Increasing the danger of loss of life by the victim or injuries leading to disability. Saving lives and health in the state of immediate threat, regardless of the reasons and circumstances require, inter alia, the proper functioning of medical staff working in the rescue system. The paper presents procedure for emergency medical services during mass events. Keywords: Emergency Medical Services; accidents; disasters