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OnStar Helps Survival Rates, CDC Says
OnStar says the way it notifies emergency responders in accidents has helped save more lives--and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) agrees.
The CDC has published a study of two years' worth of data that shows vehicles with OnStar and other automatic crash-notification systems can give critical patients a better chance at surviving. The CDC's Web site reports that by transmitting crash data to emergency personnel, those EMTs and hospitals involved can decide whether a patient needs Level I trauma center care or not--and delivering those patients in need to a Level 1 center can lower the risk of death by 25% for severely injured patients.
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OnStar says the way it notifies emergency responders in accidents has helped save more lives--and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) agrees.
The CDC has published a study of two years' worth of data that shows vehicles with OnStar and other automatic crash-notification systems can give critical patients a better chance at surviving. The CDC's Web site reports that by transmitting crash data to emergency personnel, those EMTs and hospitals involved can decide whether a patient needs Level I trauma center care or not--and delivering those patients in need to a Level 1 center can lower the risk of death by 25% for severely injured patients.
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