Title: First aid and emergency care training; Its effect on prehospital emergency care
Abstract: The effect of first aid and emergency care training programs on the delivery of prehospital care was evaluated by screening 862 emergency department patients in a suburban Pittsburgh hospital. Patients were categorized according to their conditions and prehospital attendants according to their training. Criteria were established to judge adequacy of prehospital care for several emergency conditions. Results indicated that personnel who had received the 81-hour Emergency Medical technician-Ambulance course provided the most adequate prehospital are of emergency patients. Those who had taken the 27-hour American Cross Standard and Advanced First Aid Courses provided adequate prehospital care 50% of the time. Prehospital care in the geographic area surveyed was adequate in slightly less than half the cases examined.
Publication Year: 1975
Publication Date: 1975-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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