bmore_in_rva t1_je1ro68 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 7:59 PM

Reply to comment by ithinkimaybe in Someone shot just outside MCV? Anyone have info on this? Got a text alert for 1200 E Marshall about an hour ago. by vtEB

I sure hope people are making that choice rather than waiting. There's been a lot of studies recently on quicker transport to a trauma hospital versus EMS care in the field / on the way, and the take-away as far as I can tell is that faster transport to the hospital is much more important for survival and other outcomes than involvement of EMS.

Here's some of the studies:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002013831400271X https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912155/