Air medical journal
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Transport of injured patients directly from a scene to a trauma center improves survival of patients and shortens their length of stay in the hospital. This paper studies the relationship between education presentations to prehospital personnel and scene call volume. The education sessions emphasize safety issues and how, when, and why to call for air medical transport. ⋯ Prehospital provider education programs increase scene call volume, but this effect seems to last for three months. On a town-by-town basis there are many other determinants of scene call volume.