Definition of prehospital in US English:
 prehospital
adjectiveprēˈhäspidlprēˈhäspidl
Relating to procedures administered or care provided prior to a patient's arrival at a hospital.
 the bandage was developed primarily for a prehospital setting
 Example sentencesExamples
-  It is uncomfortable and adds time and expense to prehospital and emergency department care.
 -  The Scottish Ambulance Service is the sole provider of emergency prehospital ambulance care for the 5.1 million population of Scotland.
 -  Handover at the interface between prehospital and hospital environments should always include a summary of drugs given, and documentation should accurately reflect the treatment given.
 -  We wonder what other ambulance services are doing and whether future recommendations should take into account the prehospital phase of treatment.
 -  But the quality of prehospital and hospital care has to improve.
 -  The exact mechanism of injury and any prehospital treatment must be established.
 -  His vision, determination, and tireless campaigning spearheaded the development of prehospital care and emergency medicine in Britain.
 -  In the letters pages correspondents discuss some unresolved questions in prehospital emergency care.
 -  The mobile unit brought 172 of these to hospital, and prehospital intubation was done in 43% of severely injured patients.
 -  But only a minority of prehospital arrests occur in public places.
 -  These doctors are trained and equipped to provide a high level of medical care in the prehospital environment and are judged against a different set of standards from ‘good Samaritan’ doctors.
 -  In the future, diagnosis may begin at prehospital locations or in the Emergency Department with point-of-care instruments.