TY - JOUR PY - 2017// TI - In cases of serious injury "scoop and run" improves survival compared with ambulance JO - BMJ A1 - Kmietowicz, Zosia SP - j4430 EP - j4430 VL - 358 IS - N2 -

Researchers have discovered what gang members have known all along—that you’re more likely to survive a serious injury if you get yourself to hospital than if you wait for an ambulance.1 “Scoop and run” describes the most basic form of prehospital trauma care—transportation with no intervention. A study from 2014 found that patients who used private transportation had improved survival compared with those who waited for an ambulance. But researchers from John Hopkins University School of Medicine …

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LA - en SN - 0959-535X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j4430 ID - ref1 ER -