Pre-hospital care allows patients with acute, life-threatening conditions to reach hospitals and receive more definitive management that otherwise would not have been possible. Aside from providing immediate and potentially life-saving interventions for these patients, pre-hospital care also allows easier and more efficient handoff to the hospital emergency department. This is due to emergency medical services being able to collate information regarding the patient’s personal information, their injury, and their current status, which could help guide emergency department personnel in deciding which problems must be immediately addressed.
The documentary is able to shed light on these problems, wherein farflung areas with no access to prehospital care are most affected. If anyone from these areas were to have grave and immediately life- or limb-threatening conditions such as injuries, it would be very unlikely for them to make it to the hospital unscathed. Aside from the inability to provide life-saving interventions, these areas have no safe routes toward the hospital and no ambulances can reach them. This forces acutely-ill patients to endure their conditions much longer and likely worsens patient outcomes.