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Emergency response time and pre-hospital trauma survival rate of the national ambulance service, Greater Accra (January - December 2014).

Mohammed-Najeeb MahamaErnest KenuDelia Akosua BandohAhmed Nuhu Zakariah
Published in: BMC emergency medicine (2018)
There was a high trauma patient survival rate among victims attended to by an NAS. The average response time in Greater Accra region in the 14 ambulance stations is 16.9 min which is not different from the 17 min recorded in 2013 by NAS. Factors that were associated with pre-hospital survival were alertness in the level of consciousness and response time less than 17 min.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • free survival
  • emergency department
  • public health
  • mental health
  • adverse drug
  • trauma patients