Car (after being hit by another car) was totalled after hitting head on with a tree, EMS arrived and treated passengers, describing one as pale and sweating. As they were preparing for the trip to the hospital, the EMS personel asks the injured which hospital to go. Injured responded, "the closest one is better, right?" And they went to the emergency room of closest one. Once there, after 4.5 hours, the pale, sweating passenger needed to be transported to a trauma center which was 30 minutes away. At the trauma center, passenger dies from multiple blunt trauma.
Now, at the scene of the accident where the car was totalled, shouldn't the EMS know to transport the "pale, sweating" passenger to a trauma center that is equiped to handle these types of injuries, instread of wasting away in the hallway on a stretcher of an emergency room waiting to be treated?
2007-05-24
03:10:49
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