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Article: OUTCOME OF ASYMPTOMATIC ELECTRIC SHOCK VICTIMS REQUESTING AN EMERGENCY AMBULANCE
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- Prehospital Emergency Care
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Hanley & Belfus, Inc. Oct-Dec 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
Objective. To determine whether patients suffering from electric shock without significant symptoms at the point of an emergency call could be appropriately assigned a nonemergency ambulance response using the Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS). Methods. Welsh Ambulance Service dispatch records were searched to identify patients allocated the MPDS code of 15C01 (electric shock without priority symptoms) over a 30-month period. Ambulance and hospital records were also reviewed. Results. Records were unavailable for seven of the 52 patients identified (13%). Nine refused transport (17%, 95% CI 8.2% to 30.3%), and 36 were taken to emergency departments (69%, 95% CI 55% to 81%). ...
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