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Table 5 Time intervals for physician treated patients after December 2007

From: Prehospital response model and time to CT scan in blunt trauma patients; an exploratory analysis of data from the head injury retrieval trial

 

HIRT HEMS

GSA HEMS

P value

Combined tasking & mobilisation time (mins)

7 (6–8), n = 336

17 (13–24), n = 46

<0.001

Physician team scene time (mins) for all patients treated

18 (10–28), n = 328

32 (25–46), n = 43

<0.001

Subgroup of patients not trapped at the time of physician team contact with the patient

Physician team scene time (mins)

13 (9–21), n = 110

31 (23–46), n = 30

<0.001

Physician team scene time (mins) for patients requiring prehospital intubation

16 (10–23), n = 54

34 (25–51), n = 16

<0.001

  1. All values reported as medians (IQR). “Physician team scene time for all patients treated” is less than the “Duration total scene time” in Table 3 as a road ambulance team was usually the first to arrive on the scene with the physician team arriving subsequently.