Yes I was about to disagree also, Danny; certainly with penetrating trauma,
you're much better off being bundled in the back of a cab etc rather than
waiting for an ambulance. That's from personal experience, but I didn't
realise there was a study of this. Of course this is now also supported -
indirectly - by Ken Mattox's work in Houston. It makes perfect sense when
you think about it...
Regards
Adrian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny McGeehan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: The New GMS contract, GPwSI's, Immediate Care and the
Countryside Alliance
> > None the less, I think few of us would advocate victims being bundled
into
> > the back of the nearest taxi/police car and driven to A&E by untrained
> > passers by.
> >
Well there was the famous Yellow Cab study published I think in 1996 by
Demetriades from the University of Southern California which showed that the
latter group. the yellow cab and police car patients did better than the
group transported to hospital by paramedics. It was almost sacriligious at
the time.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Danny McGeehan
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