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Since I started this off I might butt in that airway management in the GCS challenged was exactly what I thought medical input was for. Vic Calland Original Message: ----------------- From: Danny McGeehan [log in to unmask] Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:09:58 +0000 To: [log in to unmask] 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .