In penetrating trauma, patients transported directly to the hospital by non-ambulance means may have a higher survival rate than those transported by ambulance with IV fluids and stabilization.

“when a guy got shot or stabbed and his buddies drove him to the ER and dropped him off and took off cuz obviously everyone's in the wrong here right um those guys had a better chance of surviving than the guy who got brought in by the ambulance with the IV fluids running in him and brought in”