A retrospective cohort study of the 2002 Victorian prehospital emergency care documentation completed by ambulance paramedics had the objectives: (i) to design and implement a quality assessment tool to determine the quality of the ambulance patient care record (PCR)information; and (ii) to identify critical demographic and clinical items on the ambulance PCR that needed improvement. The study ...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that prehospital care teams that can provide advanced prehospital interventions may decrease the transit time through the ED to CT scan and subsequent surgery. This study is an exploratory analysis of data from the Head Injury Retrieval Trial (HIRT) examining the relationship between prehospital team type and time intervals during the prehospital and ED phases o...

Lower limb fractures are common injuries in prehospital care. Untreated fractures can lead to hypovolaemic shock especially if open, and should be treated with effective haemorrhage control and splintage. A brief assessment for open fractures, deformity, and neurovascular compromise should be followed by effective analgesia, wound management, reduction (if needed), splintage, and packaging of t...

A retrospective cohort study of the 2002 Victorian prehospital emergency care documentation completed by ambulance paramedics had the objectives: (i) to design and implement a quality assessment tool to determine the quality of the ambulance patient care record (PCR) information; and (ii) to identify critical demographic and clinical items on the ambulance PCR that needed improvement. The study...