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Citation

Oluwadiya K, Olakulehin A, Olatoke S, Kolawole I, Solagberu B, Olasinde A, Komolafe E. Annu. Proc. Assoc. Adv. Automot. Med. 2005; 49: 91-98.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital Osogbo, Nigeria.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16179142

PMCID

PMC3217445

Abstract

Pre-hospital care in developing worlds has been found to be grossly deficient compared to high income countries. The pre-hospital care given to road accident victims attending the casualty departments of four tertiary level hospitals in South Western Nigeria was assessed using a one-page pro-forma. 1996 patients with injuries from road crashes were seen in the hospitals, only 172 had any form of pre-hospital care, just 160 were transported in ambulances and none had any form of organized pre-hospital care. The mean arrival time in the hospital after crashes was 93.6 minutes and there was a high rate (29.5%) of inter-hospital referral. For every Revised Trauma Score (RTS), the Probability of survival (Ps) of the patients was higher than the Ps of patients from high income countries.

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