Inter hospital transfer or centralized ambulance number – what is the need of hour?
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Objective Pre-hospital patient management with resuscitative procedures is a standard of care in mature EMS systems. Currently, no centralized EMS system exists for the population in Eastern India. This leads to patients presenting to under-resourced facilities highlighting the need for sophisticated ambulance services for inter-facility transfers. This study identifies the need of a centralized process to obtain ambulance services for timely transport of critically ill patients to adequately equipped tertiary care centers, thereby improving patient outcome and achieving the concept of golden hour.
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