Transport Times?

[patput]

How long is your average transport time? The service I run with generally sees anywhere from 20-30 minutes depending upon where in our district the call is and if we are going hot or not.

 

[fast65]

5-45 minutes for 911 calls, 1-3 hours for IFT's.

 

[abckidsmom]

30-75 minutes, depending on where in the county it is.

 

[DrankTheKoolaid]

5 minutes - 2+ hours for 911 and 1hr for IFT

 

[Anjel]

5-10 minutes for 911.

10-90 minutes for an IFT NORMALLY. Then throw in the random out of state transfers.

 

[medic417]

More than an hour and I only do 911.

 

[VCEMT]

For calls. IFTs, depends to where. If it is out to helL.A., >1 hour.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 and a half hours for 911 calls.

IFT can be 2 minutes to 6 hours one way.

 

[Bullets]

In the Town: <5min to a level II/cath/stroke

In the City: 5-10 for stokes and stemis, 20 for Level 1s

 

[Handsome Robb]

It wasn't an option but depending on where you are it ranges from 5-25 minutes to the Level II in the middle of the city then each corner of the city has a hospital that is generally pretty capable except for the southern corner.

 

[truetiger]

5-30 mins for 911, 30 mins - 8 hours IFT...

 

[bigbaldguy]

10 to 20 for level 3 or 2. 30 to 45 to a level 1.

 

[Farmer2DO]

For 911, generally less than 10 minutes.

For IFT, it can be 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 45 minutes, and sometimes 2-4 hours.

 

[Handsome Robb]

For the people doing these obscenely long IFTs, have you ever heard of a "magic number" so to speak on distance/times where it because more efficient to fly the patient in a fixed wing aircraft?

 

[Tigger]

For the people doing these obscenely long IFTs, have you ever heard of a "magic number" so to speak on distance/times where it because more efficient to fly the patient in a fixed wing aircraft?

BLS transports we will obviously drive them as far as they wish, I think 8 hours is the record in my time with the company. ALS transfers aren't usually longer than four hours, but that's not company policy, I'll have to ask what the number is since I'm curious now.

For 911 in Boston we are rarely more than 20 from a hospital regardless of traffic. The 911 contract that we have has transports from 25-45 depending on location.

 

[phideux]

One agency I work for has 6 hospitals within about 60 miles, and the policy is to go to the patients choice of hospital, transport times there are from 3 minutes to over an hour.

The other agency has 4 hospitals in about a 30 mile radius, there it is the medics choice of the most appropriate facility, transport there is usually 3-7minutes. Never had a transport over 10 minutes there.

 

[epipusher]

We can usually turn an entire run from dispatch to back in service in about 30 minutes.

 

[truetiger]

For the people doing these obscenely long IFTs, have you ever heard of a "magic number" so to speak on distance/times where it because more efficient to fly the patient in a fixed wing aircraft?

My service will take a psych to any nut hut in the state....also we do a lot of prisoner transports. Per the state they all have to go to a hospital in Jeff City if they require hospitalization.

 

[abckidsmom]

We can usually turn an entire run from dispatch to back in service in about 30 minutes.

Even in the urban, 5 minute transport system I used to work in, calls typically took an hour.

 

[ironco]

Our transport times are always greater than 30 mins. I work a very rural service