Assessment of Pre-Hospital management Effectiveness in Emerg

Every year there is over 50 thousand car accidents in Poland. Almost 7 thousand people are killed and 67 thousand are seriously wounded yearly. We have one of the highest death rates in Europe as far as car accidents are concerned, which is 12,6 per100 injured, where as in Europe it is 4,5 per 100 injured. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of pre-hospital emergency medical care in trauma victims. We examined 500 patients, 278 males and 222 females, who …

…most times. 2. Average arrival time of emergency medical service to the victim enables an effective help. 3. Most of the victims were treated appropriate to the national standards, although serious deficiencies were found. The most evident were: lack of cervical spine immobilization, shock controlling procedures, usage of the Glasgow Coma Scale and the Revised Injury Scale. 4. Pre-hospital treatment for patients with fractures characterizes inadequate pain control, which mostly is limited to the immobilization of the fracture.