Detection of severe injury on scene: mechanism of injury, telephone interrogation or ambulance crew assessment?
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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).
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 20 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2012