When is it OK to call an ambulance?
- Written by Bill Lord, Associate Professor in Paramedicine, University of the Sunshine Coast
When would you call 000 for an ambulance? When a fall results in a nasty fracture? Concern that labour is progressing so rapidly that you’ll give birth before you can get to hospital? Weakness from prolonged vomiting and diarrhoea?
If you take a look at some Australian ambulance websites, none of these examples meet their definition of a...