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EMS UNIT ARRIVAL ON SCENE TIME
08-Jan-2009
Pre-Hospital Information
Definition
The time the unit transporting to your hospital arrived on the scene (the time
the vehicle stopped moving).
- For inter facility transfer patients, this is the time at which the unit
transporting the patient to your facility from the transferring facility
arrived at the transferring facility (arrival is defined at date/time when the vehicle stopped moving).
- For patients transported from the scene of injury to your hospital, this is the time at which the unit transporting the patient to your facility from the scene arrived at the scene (arrival is defined at date/time when the vehicle stopped moving).
Additional Information
- Collected as HH:MM.
- HH:MM should be collected as military time.
- Used to auto-generate two additional calculated fields: Total EMS Response Time (elapsed time from EMS dispatch to scene arrival) & Total EMS Scene Time (elapsed time from EMS scene arrival to scene departure).
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