Doctors on (video) call to help paramedics while in ambulance


By AGENCY

This video system installed in an ambulance, allows paramedics in rural areas of South Dakota to get help from more experienced healthcare personnel. — Photos: TNS

Rural paramedics who rescued rancher Jim Lutter in South Dakota, United States, after he was gored by a bison didn’t have much experience handling such severe wounds.

But the paramedics did have a doctor looking over their shoulders inside the ambulance as they rushed Jim to a hospital.

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