Prehospital Emergency Care 

TL;DR: These Guidelines are distributed with the understanding that the Brain Trauma Foundation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the other organizations that have collaborated in the development of these Guidelines are not engaged in rendering professional medical services.

TL;DR: National averages for prehospital times for trauma patients transported by helicopter and ground ambulance over a 30-year period are determined so that policymakers can compare individual emergency medical systems to national norms.

TL;DR: The PTL, LM, and Combi appear to offer substantial advances over the OA/BVM system and the Combitube was associated with the least problems with ventilation and was the most preferred by a majority of EMAs.

TL;DR: The development of an evidence-based guideline for external hemorrhage control in the prehospital setting is described and a clinical care guideline is proposed for adoption by EMS systems.

TL;DR: A retrospective analysis of all fatal ambulance crashes on U.S. public roadways reported to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System database from 1987 to 1997 found that most crashes and fatalities occurred during emergency use and at intersections.