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Table 1 Alerting of doctors with their response, prehospital response time, air ambulance involvement and to where the patients were brought by NACA-score

From: Acute chest pain - A prospective population based study of contacts to Norwegian emergency medical communication centres

      

NACA Scores

  
 

Total

0-1

2-3

4-6

7

 

N

(%)

N

(%)

N

(%)

N

(%)

N

(%)

Doctor was the caller

108

(11)

4

(5)

65

(10)

39

(16)

0

(0)

Doctors alerted

351

(36)

36

(41)

214

(34)

95

(39)

6

(60)

Doctors neither caller or alerted

512

(53)

47

(54)

352

(56)

109

(45)

4

(40)

Total

971

(100)

87

(100)

631

(100)

243

(100)

10

(100)

Doctors' response when alerted

          

   Call out

109

(33)

7

(21)

57

(29)

39

(43)

6

(100

   Awaiting further notice

138

(42)

16

(47)

90

(46)

32

(36)

0

(0)

   Occupied with other patient(s)

2

(1)

0

(0)

2

(1)

0

(0)

0

(0)

   No contact/response from doctor

9

(3)

1

(3)

3

(1)

5

(6)

0

(0)

   Consultation with hospital

69

(21)

10

(29)

45

(23)

14

15)

0

(0)

Total

327

(100)

34

(100)

197

(100)

90

(100)

6

(100)

Prehospital response time

          

   0-9 minutes

276

(30)

20

(23)

176

(29)

76

(33)

4

(57)

   10-19 minutes

413

(45)

38

(44)

287

(47)

86

(38)

2

(29)

   > 20 minutes

237

(25)

28

(33)

143

(24)

65

(29)

1

(14)

Total

926

(100)

86

(100)

606

(100)

227

(100)

7

(100)

Air ambulance requested

          

   Yes

56

(6)

0

0)

13

(2)

39

(16)

4

(40)

   No

915

(94)

87

(100)

618

(98)

204

(84)

6

(60)

Total

971

(100)

87

(100)

631

(100)

243

(100)

10

(100)

Air ambulance response

          

   Helicopter with anaesthetist sent

34

(69)

0

(0)

5

(45)

25

(74)

4

(100)

   Ground vehicle with anaesthetist sent

9

(18)

0

(0)

5

(45)

4

(12)

0

(0)

   Awaiting further notice

1

(2)

0

(0)

1

(9)

0

(0)

0

(0)

   No flight due to weather condition

4

(8)

0

(0)

0

(0)

4

(12)

0

(0)

   No flight due to technical problem

1

(2)

0

(0)

0

(0)

1

(3)

0

(0)

Total

49

(100)

0

(0)

11

(100)

34

(100)

4

(100)

Patients brought to

          

   Casualty clinic

143

(15)

46

(53)

95

(15)

2

(1)

0

(0)

   Hospital via casualty clinic

121

(13)

0

(0)

108

(17)

13

(5)

0

(0)

   Directly hospital, doctor involved

373

(39)

0

(0)

216

(34)

157

(65)

0

(0)

   Directly hospital, doctor not involved

230

(24)

0

(0)

161

(26)

69

(29)

0

(0)

   Patient remained on site

87

(9)

38

(44)

49

(8)

0

(0)

0

(0)

   Deceased

10

(1)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

10

(100)

   Taken care of by other

2

(~0)

2

(2)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

Total

966

(100)

86

(100)

629

(100)

241

(100)

10

(100)