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aack of the van who had crawled out by themselves had already been treated and were on their way to area hospitals.
After removing the women from the car, their conditions were stabilized by the medical personnel at the scene with the assistance of the paramedics riding aboard Pegasus and they were loaded aboard the helicopter, which stood waiting in the Co-op parking lot.
Both women, though badly injured, eventually recovered and were discharged from the hospital within a month after the accident. Much of the credit for their recovery, according to an expert in emergency medicine, goes to the volunteer rescue personnel who realized that? their injuries would require evacuation by helicopter to a trauma center.
Patients with severe injuries who arrive at a trauma center within one hour of the accident - the socalled “golden hour” - stand a much greater chance of surviving, he said. In rural areas, with long transport distances to emergency care, that one hour “window” often means that
, . (See RESCUE, p. 17)
91.8%