FOI 25-452 Ondansetron Usage
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-452 Ondansetron Usage
- Request Date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Response Date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Information Requested
Please provide, for each of the last 2 financial years, the number of patients attended by the Scottish Ambulance Service who were administered ondansetron by ambulance clinicians. Break down by: (a) route (IV/IM), and (b) chief complaint if recorded. Please also provide the total number of SAS attended incidents in the same periods to allow rate calculation.
- Response
Please see the attached sheet detailing the total count of attended incidents where the drug Ondansetron has been administered by Scottish Ambulance Service crews. This information has been broken down by the route the drug was administered – where this has not been indicated by crew, a count has been provided. A second table has been provided detailing the attended incidents where the drug Ondansetron was administered by Scottish Ambulance Service crews broken down by the final crew codes.
This information has been provided over two tabs as a new clinical system is being phased in. This phased system has been in place since June 24 and involves only a portion of Scotland. There is the possibility that an incident from the Terrapace 3 system could be counted in the Terrapace 2 system and therefore the figures in the table should NOT be added together.
For the given data, you will see that some of the figures are shown as, five or less than five, please note that this figure has been suppressed because the statistical value is less than five. The Scottish Ambulance service has a duty, under the Data Protection Act to avoid directly or indirectly revealing any personal details. It is therefore widely understood that provision of statistics on small numbers, five or less are statistically suppressed upon disclosure.
Important information to Consider
There is the possibility for crews to enter multiple final codes for the same incident or, where multiple crews attend the same incident, there may be partially completed patient report forms detailing the drug admin but no final code has been entered by the administering crew. These incidents have been captured where the incident code is blank.
- Response Documents
