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The name "Critical Hour" refers to the fact that in many cases, such as Heart Attacks , automobile accidents, Diabetic Coma s, Overdose s, and other emergencies, medical care for patients during the first hour after the emergency plays a critical role in the patient's outcome, to the point where the survival rate for a trauma patient goes down significantly if initial care is not given within the first hour. For this reason, the initial 60 minutes following a traumatic incident is often called the " Golden Hour " in emergency medicine parlayance. The show first aired in ( University Of Maryland Shock Trauma) and Toronto , Ontario , Canada ( Sunnybrook And Women's College Health Sciences Centre ; Toronto St. Michael's Hospital ). The former shows were a decidedly different format, with a running timeclock on the patients as they made their way through the initial entrance into the trauma system (and then updates to their progress as the episode went on), while the latter episodes tend to transition between patients' stories, following a smaller set of patient stories from beginning to end throughout the episode. A standalone show, '' Chopper Rescue '', a documentary about flight paramedics in Los Angeles, California , was added to the rotation under the "Critical Hour" umbrella title in 2005. Like most traumatic injuries in real life, most stories featured on the show end in a "save", but some do not, clearly demonstrating that as remarkable as Trauma Medicine is today, it still can't save everyone from everything. NOTES |
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