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ithinkimaybe t1_je1jp6v wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Someone shot just outside MCV? Anyone have info on this? Got a text alert for 1200 E Marshall about an hour ago. by vtEB

I wonder if they called 911 and got put on hold and decided taking someone by car was faster.

This happens pretty frequently.

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bmore_in_rva t1_je1ro68 wrote

I sure hope people are making that choice rather than waiting. There's been a lot of studies recently on quicker transport to a trauma hospital versus EMS care in the field / on the way, and the take-away as far as I can tell is that faster transport to the hospital is much more important for survival and other outcomes than involvement of EMS.

Here's some of the studies:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002013831400271Xhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912155/

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freeride1 t1_je1rpev wrote

More likely they didn’t want the heat and took the victim and dropped him off. If you call an ambulance for a shooting victim you set off a police investigation.

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