Ambulance ramping causes preventable cardiac deaths: Aus study
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Patients experiencing chest pain who do not make it from the ambulance to an ED bed inside of 17 minutes are more likely to die than those delivered in a timely manner, a study shows.
Analysis of data on 213,000 transported adults confirms that so-called ambulance ramping affects clinical outcomes and should be urgently addressed, say Melbourne cardiologists and co-authors from Ambulance Victoria.