Annals of emergency medicine
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Review
The impact of injury severity and prehospital procedures on scene time in victims of major trauma.
To evaluate the relationship among injury severity, prehospital procedures, and time spent at the scene by paramedics for victims of major trauma. ⋯ Extremely short scene times can be attained without foregoing potentially life-saving advanced life support interventions in an urban EMS system with strong medical control. In such a system, the most severely injured victims may spend less time at the scene although more procedures are performed on them.