Background. A common tenet in emergency medical services (EMS) is that faster response
equates to better patient outcome, translated by some EMS operations into a goal of a …

Objective The time spent on scene by emergency medical services remains highly variable.
We sought to investigate how much of the prehospital scene time variation in penetrating …

INTRODUCTION: The regionalization of trauma services is based on the premise that
injured persons presenting to nontertiary facilities will be stabilized and rapidly transported …

There is limited English literature describing the experience of a civilian hospital managing
blast-related burn injuries. As the largest regional burn unit, we reviewed our cases with the …

Objective: Most previous retrospective studies failed to show a consistent association
between pre-hospital time intervals and mortality in TRAUMA patients, bringing the …

BACKGROUND: Traumatic death occupies a high ranking in the annual national report on
causes of death and causes a significant burden to society. To reduce traumatic death, an …

Many patients with minor burn wounds will initially be evaluated in an emergency
department (ED) and incur unnecessary costs that could be avoided through a direct referral …

Objective: To investigate the situations of on-site rescue and traumatic features of victims
involved in gas explosion accident in Hangzhou, so as to provide more data support for …

Background Burn-trauma patient encounters constitute 5% of the emergency department
population. Hypothesis A large urban hospital will treat twice as many (ie, 10%) burn-trauma …

Introduction: The controversy surrounding the use of advanced life support (ALS) for the
prehospital management of trauma pivots on the fact that these procedures could cause …