Ambulance

Peer-to-peer telemedicine consultations may be a cost-effective triage strategy prior to ambulance transfer to the ED for pediatric patients with orthopedic trauma, according to published results.

Adults in the U.K. quickly transferred to a specialized cardiac arrest center after resuscitated cardiac arrest were no less likely to die at 30 days than patients transferred to their closest ED, researchers reported.

Drones successfully delivered automated external defibrillators to the locations of suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, according to a speaker at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Mobile stroke units vs. standard EMS response in patients with acute stroke.

Patients who experienced a stroke and were treated by a mobile stroke unit were more likely to be treated within the first hour of symptom onset and more than twice as likely to be disability free at 90 days, a researcher reported.

Mobile stroke units operating in the densely populated area of Manhattan, New York, can reduce the dispatch-to-thrombolysis time by 30 minutes compared with patients transported via conventional ambulance, and patients have a shorter average ride.