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[How long does it take for an ambulance to arrive?].

J E Steen-Hansen1, E H Folkestad

  • 1AMK/Ambulanseseksjonen Avdeling for anestesiologi Sentralsykehuset i Vestfold, Tønsberg Postboks 2168 3103 Tønsberg. jesh2@online.no

Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening : Tidsskrift for Praktisk Medicin, Ny Raekke
|May 3, 2001
PubMed
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Norwegian ambulance services fall short of response time standards. Major restructuring is needed to meet proposed targets for reaching emergency patients within 8 minutes in urban areas and 25 minutes in rural locations.

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Area of Science:

  • Emergency medical services
  • Public health policy
  • Healthcare system analysis

Background:

  • Limited Norwegian recommendations exist for ambulance service quality and efficacy.
  • A government report identified the ambulance service as the weakest link in the chain of survival.
  • Proposed response time standards: 90% of urban populations reached within 8 minutes, 90% of rural populations within 25 minutes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze ambulance response intervals in Vestfold County, Norway, during 1998.
  • To evaluate the achievement of proposed national ambulance response time standards in a Norwegian county.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of 2,589 red code emergency calls in 15 municipalities in Vestfold County, 1998.
  • Data collected from seven ambulance stations serving a population of 208,687.

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  • Geographic analysis considering population density (97.5 inhabitants/km²).

    • Main Results:

    • No municipality in Vestfold County met the proposed response time standards.
    • Tønsberg achieved the best performance, reaching 48.9% of the population within 8 minutes.
    • Tjøme, a rural municipality, reached only 63.3% of its population within 25 minutes.

    Conclusions:

    • Current ambulance service performance in Vestfold County does not meet proposed national standards.
    • Significant restructuring of existing ambulance services is necessary to achieve the recommended response times.
    • The findings highlight critical gaps in emergency medical response capabilities in Norway.