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Emerg Med J 20:375-378 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.375
  • Prehospital care

Feasibility of prehospital treatment with activated charcoal: Who could we treat, who should we treat?

Table 2

Subgroup analysis of patients presenting to ambulance and hospital within one and two hours. The subgroups are defined in table 1 and the number of each is entered in this table. Numbers in parentheses for groups 1A and 1B are if patients with a GCS <14 are excluded so less patients are decontaminated by ambulance, reducing the number of extra cases

Ambulance within one hour Hospital within one hour Extra cases AC Ambulance within two hours Hospital within two hours Extra cases AC
Group Number Number % Number % Number Number % Number % Number
1 334 129 39 23 7 106
1A 279 105 (83) 38 18 6 87 (65)
1B 55 24 (23) 44 5 9 19 (18) 36 65 24 44 12
2 439 160 36 32 7 128
3 134 56 42 13 10 43 79 59 58 43 21
4 1134 429 38 93 8 336
Total 2041 774 38 161 8 613 1247 61 862 42 385

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