Inadequacy of prehospital emergency care
- 1 May 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 1 (3) , 130-134
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003246-197305000-00002
Abstract
A survey to evaluate the prehospital emergency care in the city of Pittsburgh revealed that only 38% of the urgent and critically ill patients were adequately managed enroute to the hospital. Similar levels of performance of prehospital emergency care probably exist in most urban, suburban and rural areas of the country. A concerted effort to upgrade the ambulance services and their paramedical staffs should be made to provide adequate prehospital care in order to reduce morbidity and mortality of critically ill patients.Keywords
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