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Table 1 Definition of the severity categories of ambulance delivery cases in Japan

From: ABCD approach at the #7119 center, telephone triage system in Tokyo, Japan; a retrospective cohort study

Severity

Definition

Mild

Not admitted

Moderate

Admitted without a life-threating condition

Severe

Admitted with possibility of a life-threating conditiona

Lethal

Admitted with a life-threating conditionb

Dead

Confirmed death

  1. aPossibility of a life-threating condition means patients with a life-threating condition, but not lethal or dead
  2. bLife-threating condition means the following: a) patients with a risk of cardiac or respiratory arrest; b) patients who have undergone cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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BMC Emergency Medicine

ISSN: 1471-227X

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