Broadway Fire Station paramedic Lt. Keith Mulholland (right) responds to a motor vehicle accident on Loudon Road along with Mike Johnson (center) in Concord in July. Several studies question the importance of EMS response times.
In 2002, emergency medicine specialists at the Denver Health Medical Center wanted to find out how much response times affected the survival of the major trauma patients they treated - often the victims of car crashes, gunshots and stabbings. They treated the kind of patients for whom every minute - they thought -… 2