Abstract
Background Accurate identification of serious injury is critical to the tasking of scarce resources like air ambulances and for the effective triage of injured patients to trauma centres. This service dispatches a doctor-paramedic team to major trauma patients. Dispatch is based on mechanism of injury (MOI); dispatching control room paramedic interrogation of caller (INT) or request after assessment by attending land ambulance crew (REQ).
Highlights
Accurate identification of serious injury is critical to the tasking of scarce resources like air ambulances and for the effective triage of injured patients to trauma centres
Dispatch is based on mechanism of injury (MOI); dispatching control room paramedic interrogation of caller (INT) or request after assessment by attending land ambulance crew (REQ)
Unstructured telephone interrogation by experienced paramedics is as successful as crew request after assessment on scene and both are significantly better than MOI
Summary
Accurate identification of serious injury is critical to the tasking of scarce resources like air ambulances and for the effective triage of injured patients to trauma centres. This service dispatches a doctor-paramedic team to major trauma patients. Dispatch is based on mechanism of injury (MOI); dispatching control room paramedic interrogation of caller (INT) or request after assessment by attending land ambulance crew (REQ). Aims This study was conducted to identify which of the three dispatch methods was most effective at identifying patients with serious injury
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