Anyone else noticed that:
>1.12 <snip> Ambulances will be equipped with video and monitoring
>equipment so that victims of accidents can get the most appropriate
>care while they are being taken to hospital. <snip>
Interesting spending priority. I wonder if anyone has done a Cost-
Benefit analysis....
>14.21 At present, thousands of lives are unnecessarily lost each year
>because of delays in treating heart attack patients. Clot-busting drugs
>(thrombolysis) should be given within 60 minutes of calling for
>professional help yet this only happens in about one case in ten. There
>will be three reforms to improve 'call-to-needle' times:
>-the immediate priority is to improve ambulance response times because
>every minute counts - arriving one minute earlier after heart attack
>gives an extra 11 days of life. By 2001 the ambulance service should
>achieve a first response to 75% of Category A calls within 8 minutes.
>This progress on ambulance response times will save up to 1,800 lives a
>year
Nothing new here.....
>-by 2003, 75% of eligible people will receive thrombolysis within 20
>minutes of hospital arrival as services are redesigned
But I thought the NSF said 30 minutes......
>-there will be a three year programme to train and equip ambulance
>paramedics to provide thrombolysis safely for appropriate patients. On
>average, patients will get thrombolysis an hour sooner than if they
>were taken to hospital first, saving up to 3,000 lives a year once
>fully implemented.
Mmmm. I'm sure there will be an interesting debate.....
Kath
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