Ambulance callouts to Framlingham, Suffolk in 2006

Ambulance Callouts to Framlingham 2006
Type Of Call	Number of calls made	Paramedic/Ambulance		Category A ***	Average response time
Type Of Call	Number of calls made	made Mobile *	arrived **	Category A ***	Average response time
Falls	54	53	52	3	00:16:31
Chest Pain	37	37	37	37	00:11:19
Unconscious	20	20	19	10	00:14:17
Overdose	17	15	14	1	00:21:14
Sick Person	14	12	10	0	00:09:32
Stroke / CVA	14	14	14	0	00:14:35
Breathing Problems	12	12	11	5	00:14:16
Traumatic Injury	11	11	10	4	00:06:25
Abdo Pain	10	9	8	0	00:14:24
Heart Problems	8	8	8	5	00:16:25
Convulsions/Fitting	7	7	7	6	00:12:21
Haemorrhage	5	5	5	3	00:19:02
Road Traffic Accident	4	4	4	0	00:14:35
Assault	3	2	2	1	00:15:47
Pregnancy / Gynae	3	3	3	0	00:13:20
Cardiac Arrest	2	2	2	2	00:12:13
Choking	2	2	1	0	00:13:46
Allergies	1	1	1	1	00:12:53
Burns	1	1	1	0	00:15:02
Psychiatric	1	1	1	0	00:15:14
TOTALS	226	222	213	78	00:14:19

* Sometimes if there isn’t an Ambulance free to transport a patient straight away a Paramedic will be sent in a rapid response vehicle to provide advanced life support .

** In some cases the Paramedic or Ambulance is told to stand down before reaching the call but only on advisement of the caller

*** Category A calls are listed as high priority

Every year 300,000 people in the UK suffer a heart attack

Survival rate in the UK is poor

Less than 5% of people who suffer a cardiac arrest outside hospital are expected to survive

Technology is available to improve these statistics in the form of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

When an AED is applied to a casualty in cardiac arrest within the first 3-4 minutes survival rates of 85% have been recorded.

This decreases by approx 10% per minute