Bruno Schnegg, Mathieu Pasquier, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Bertrand Yersin, Fabrice Dami
Introduction The concept of response time with minimal interval is intimately related to the practice of emergency medicine. The factors influencing this time interval are poorly understood. Problem In a process of improvement of response time, the impact of the patient's age on ambulance departure intervals was investigated. METHOD: This was a 3-year observational study. Departure intervals of ambulances, according to age of patients, were analyzed and a multivariate analysis, according to time of day and suspected medical problem, was performed...
December 2016: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine