@article{ref1,
title="Pre-hospital care of the injured in South Western Nigeria: a hospital based study of four tertiary level hospitals in three States",
journal="Annual proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine",
year="2005",
author="Oluwadiya, K. S. and Olakulehin, A. O. and Olatoke, S. A. and Kolawole, I. K. and Solagberu, B. A. and Olasinde, A. A. and Komolafe, E. O. K.",
volume="49",
number="",
pages="91-98",
abstract="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.",
language="",
issn="1540-0360",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}