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Criminal Justice Collection - Document - 0 views

  • More than a decade ago the city gave the OK to police to transport penetrating-trauma patients
  • If a "shots fired" call goes out over the radio, it's a good bet police will arrive on scene before EMS providers.
  • And with penetrating-trauma patients, where moments really do count, which option sounds better: waiting for an ambulance to arrive while the patient bleeds out, or cops loading the patient into the back of a squad car and transporting to the nearest trauma center themselves? There's evidence that supports the practice of police transport, and one need look no further than the city of Philadelphia.
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  • respond to calls with penetrating-trauma patients to transport without waiting for EMS backup.
  • July 20, 2012. Twenty-three trauma patients were transported to the University of Colorado Hospital Emergency Department that day--12 by police, eight by personal motor vehicle and three by EMS. Within 45 minutes of the shootings, nine police cars and one ambulance arrived at the emergency department (ED) with victims. Police transport clearly made a difference.
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ryan keely

SIRS: Obamacare: Affordable Care Act's False Promise of Universal Coverage - 0 views

  • 37 million U.S. citizens were without health insurance on the eve of the Affordable Care Act
  • 36 million were in households that earn above the poverty level; 7 million live in households earning $75,000 or above
  • The joint CBO-Joint Committee on Taxation study finds that Obamacare will reduce the number of uninsured residents from 53 million to 30 million, but the 53 million includes "unauthorized" immigrants and those eligible but not enrolled in Medicaid
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