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Prehospital Interventions: On-scene-Time and Ambulance-Technicians' Experience
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Birk, Hans O. Henriksen, Lars O. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Description | Introduction:: Very little evidence is available on the experience of ambulance-personnels or on the impact of prehospital interventions on total prehospital time.Hypothesis:: On-scene-time increases with the number of prehospital techniques used, and ambulance-technicians achieve only limited clinical experience in prehospital techniques.Methods:: Prospective, observational registry study including 56 ambulance technicians from two ambulance stations in the mixed urban/rural county and 5,557 patients who were brought to a hospital in 1998. The number of cases in which each ambulance-technician performed various kinds of prehospital techniques, and the average on-scene time for each prehospital technique and several combinations of prehospital techniques were calculated.Results:: There were large differences between the number of times each technique was used. On-scene time was smallest when no techniques were used and tended to increase with the number of interventions used. On-scene-time was relatively low for patients with cardiac arrest.Conclusion:: The Danish ambulance-technicians' curriculum includes interventions for which the technicians only achieve limited practical experience. Prehospital interventions are associated with an increase of on-scene time. |
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| Ending Page | 169 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| Starting Page | 167 |
| ISSN | 1049023X |
| e-ISSN | 19451938 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049023x00000406 |
| Journal | Prehospital and disaster medicine |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2002-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Prehospital and disaster medicine Health Policy and Services Ambulance Technicians Basic Life Support Emergency Medical Services |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Emergency Medicine Emergency Nursing |
