Basic care increases odds when headed to hospital

Monday, October 12, 2015 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

Patients with trauma, stroke, heart attack, and respiratory failure who were transported by basic life support (BLS) ambulances had a better chance of survival than patients who were transported by advanced life support (ALS) ambulances, a study of Medicare patients in urban counties nationwide found. “We studied conditions that were representative of the major causes […]

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