Saturday, July 09, 2005

Paramedic Response Time: Does It Affect Patient Survival?

From the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. I've excerpted from the abstract:

A paramedic response time within 8 minutes was not associated with improved survival to hospital discharge after controlling for several important confounders, including level of illness severity. However, a survival benefit was identified when the response time was within 4 minutes for patients with intermediate or high risk of mortality. Adherence to the 8-minute response time guideline in most patients who access out-of-hospital emergency services is not supported by these results.

1 Comments:

At 1:11 PM, Blogger Chris said...

Paul,

Did you invent the med timer? Can you still get them? Thanks!

Chief Cross

 

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