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See Latest ArticlesIs ambulance telephone triage using advanced medical priority dispatch protocols able to identify patients with acute stroke correctly
Emergency Medicine Journal, 05/29/09
Deakin CD et al. - Fewer than half of all patients with acute stroke were identified using telephone triage on the initial emergency call to the ambulance service. Less than one quarter received the highest priority of ambulance response. This first link in the chain of survival needs strengthening in order to provide prompt and timely emergency care for these patients.
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