Management of the moribund carbon monoxide victim.

helicopter were for secondary missions, the helicopter being deployed after the land ambulance had arrived at the scene. It is clear from the work with the West Midlands that the best effective deployment of an air ambulance is as a primary resource replacing a land-based ambulance resource. The only absolute measure of evaluating the emergency response care provided by the ambulance service will be a clearly demonstrated reduction in morbidity and mortality and this can only be shown with reference to formal trauma scoring in particular TRISS methodology.