. If there is a statistic out there that shows that dual paramedics have a higher success rate in terms of the outcome of treating their patients, Id like to see it and have the source cited. Ive never seen such a study, and I have looked high and low for it. I)
Well really there isn't much data (that I can find) to suggests that ALS in general has a huge impact on patient outcome at all. The majority, if not all, of the studies that have been done have methodological problems, and the data seems to be pretty conflicting and ambiguous. A few studies have sorta suggested ALS can have some imporvement in cardiac arrest (maybe), and maybe some impact on trauma, but overall the impact of ALS is far from indesputable. There are just as many (if not more) studies that have suggested no difference between ALS and BLS systems. The only consistancy among the studies that I can find is that the data is impeachable in them all.
So what's the deal? Am I missing some stellar major study that once and for all established that an ALS system is far far superior to a BLS sytem, and worth any cost?