Shishkabob
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Of course this all hangs on the delay being harmful to the patient to begin with. The situations that are -that- time sensitive are extremely, extremely rare.
But you never take the chance of that rarity during the initial dispatch. L/S before pt contact for a call that can go south, quick, is warranted.
L/S on the way to the hospital, with the pt in the rig, with known condition, is another story. Really, if the seconds it shaves off on the way back to the hospital might make a difference, it's already too late.