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That is not what the evidence suggest, it still is suggesting that Fire BLS First response arrives within 4mins. And an Ambulnace arrives within 8-12. No one is advocating not sending first responders to a call at all.
The cities that the studies were done all have a Medic on the Ambulance, so it is stating that a Medic arrives at every call. The medic just does not need to be there in under 4mins if an EMT is going to be there in under 4mins.
Agreed, my above post was poorly worded. My point is that for a patient that is truly sick, but not with a life threatening complaint, BLS does almost nothing. That interim time between first responder and arrival and ambulance arrival is significant at times, and I imagine that we would all consider timely relief of pain and suffering as a large part of EMS. ALS first response is useful here, but I don't think it can be quantified well statistically. I guess the wider question is whether or not everything done by EMS needs to be quantifiably useful, or are there other measures of success?