Keith
DOA usually means the person died upon arrival at Hospital, Witch is from paramedic assist.
DRT means when we arrived the body was hear and the head was over there.
I have a agrgument with the ambulance people all the time about giving fluids to someone that has or is loosing a lot of blood. Fluid has no red blood cells, which means what you do is sufficat the patient due to insafisant O-2 transfer. Its way better to load and go, The body will shut down on its own when it looses a lot of blood. Kind of a self induced comma. When you replace the blood and oxegnate it, TA-DA the comma ends. You have to be withing about 4-10 min from getting blood and have the means to close the wound. So giving someone D-5 or rinngers isn't going to help them and in fact most likely will kill them, Hence the paramedic assist lable.
Ron
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