Deciding to convey rests on what the patient needs that you cannot provide, and the handover, usually structured as ATMIST, is how your assessment and the mechanism reach the hospital.
Nobody at the hospital will see the tackle, the fall, the barrier the runner went into, or the 15 minutes the athlete spent talking normally before he stopped. You are the only source of that information, and the handover is the minute or so in which it survives or is lost.
Most event patients are treated and walk away. The ones who leave by ambulance take with them whatever you managed to say in a noisy tent to a crew who arrived 4 minutes ago. Planning Event Medical Cover covers what is pre-agreed with the ambulance service; this page is about the individual patient.
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