The impact of injury severity and prehospital procedures on scene time in victims of major trauma
Annals of Emergency MedicinePublished 1 December 1991
Daniel W. Spaite, David J Tse, Terence D. Valenzuela, Elizabeth A. Criss, Harvey W. Meislin, Mark Mahoney
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Extremely short scene times can be attained without foregoing potentially life-saving advanced life support interventions in an urban EMS system with strong medical control in such a system, the most severely injured victims may spend less time at the scene although more procedures are performed on them.
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Extremely short scene times can be attained without foregoing potentially life-saving advanced life support interventions in an urban EMS system with strong medical control. In such a system, the most severely injured victims may spend less time at the scene although more procedures are performed on them.
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