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Emergency Medicine
Longer Ambulance Journeys Boost Death Risk for Seriously Ill Patients
September 3rd, 2007
The further seriously ill patients have to travel by ambulance to reach emergency care, the more likely they are to die, reveals research in Emergency Medicine Journal. People with respiratory problems seem to be at greatest risk, the study indicates. The findings have implications for the UK government’s proposals to close local emergency care departments in favour of fewer more specialised centres, in a bid to save lives, say the authors. Local closures will inevitably spell longer ambulance journeys for critically ill patients, they say. The findings are based on a review of life-threatening (category A)...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-09-03)
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