helicopter-based emergency medical services
A comparative study on the frequency of simulation based training and assessment of non technical skills in the Norwegian ground ambulance services and helicopter emergency medical services
... prehospital emergency medical service (EMS) is an integrated part of the Norwegian pre- paredness system [1], dedicated to providing immedi- ate medical attention and delivery of care outside the ...
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Primary scene responses by Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in New South Wales Australia 2008–2009
... For each HEMS primary scene response we estimated a corresponding hypothetical ground transport distance, using a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based network analysis. Response locations were mapped using ...
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Survival benefit of helicopter emergency medical services compared to ground emergency medical services in traumatized patients
... of helicopter transported patients ...towards helicopter transportation in trau- matized patients was evaluated by Biewener et al ...that helicopter transport had an impact on mortality outcome but ...
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Helicopter emergency medical services accident rates in different international air rescue systems
... general and compared with the ground EMS. To date, several studies have analyzed HEMS performance and HEMS accidents in other countries, but results are difficult to compare, given that different analyzing methods and ...
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Modelling optimal location for pre-hospital helicopter emergency medical services
... HEMS services in BC may potentially provide a cost-effective way for extending emergency medical serv- ices to populations in rural areas and is part of a broader systems approach to improve patient ...
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Noise exposure during prehospital emergency physicians work on Mobile Emergency Care Units and Helicopter Emergency Medical Services
... alpine helicopter rescue operations seems to exceed the national occupa- tional levels with exposures equivalent to noise levels of >85 dB(A) recorded during 2726 missions from four bases ...other ...
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Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
... delay emergency medical response, HEMS activation to OHCA should be to deliver advanced post- ROSC ...land- based emergency medical intervention, activation or landing at the scene of ...
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Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) over-triage and the financial implications for major trauma centres in NSW, Australia
... is based on the peer group averages and do not account for the potential additional weightings for aspects such as public or private status, aboriginality and longer lengths of ...
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The reliability and accuracy of operational system data in a nationwide helicopter emergency medical services mission database
... is based on the interpretation of national guidelines for the usage of CQR, which may vary, and no definitions of variables were not included in the e-mails or material sent to study ...
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Factors impacting on the activation and approach times of helicopter emergency medical services in four Alpine countries
... are based on whether the independent variable was the primary splitter (the independent variable on which the parent node was split, where the weight is 1) or a surrogate (where the weight depends on the ...
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Life In Air: Helicopter Emergency Medical Services
... hospital-based medical helicopter service was established in 1972 at ...these services in conjunction with the implementation of organized trauma ...32 helicopter emergency ...
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Protocol of the DENIM study: a Delphi-procedure on the identification of trauma patients in need of care by physician-staffed Mobile Medical Teams in the Netherlands
... by emergency medical services ...or emergency care and additional training in prehospital trauma life support ...Mobile Medical Team (MMT) was introduced in 1995 and was extended by ...
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What clinical crew competencies and qualifications are required for helicopter emergency medical services? A review of the literature
... The majority of studies included in this literature re- view suggest that HEMS confers a patient benefit, re- gardless of whether the clinical crew composition is similar or more advanced than the ground-based EMS ...
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The mission characteristics of a newly implemented rural helicopter emergency medical service
... requests based on limited information, resulting in subsequent cancellations as pro- gressively more information becomes ...for services that often deploy to non-trauma cases ...the helicopter being ...
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Limitation of treatment in prehospital care – the experiences of helicopter emergency medical service physicians in a nationwide multicentre survey
... housing services, which include residential homes for older people, sheltered housing with and without 24-h assist- ance, institutions for people with intellectual disabilities, institutions for substance abusers, ...
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Intubation during a medevac flight: safety and effect on total prehospital time in the helicopter emergency medical service system
... The Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) typ- ically intubates patients who need advanced airway man- agement prior to takeoff. In-flight intubation (IFI) is often avoided because it is ...
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EMS providers do not use FOAM for education
... Methods: We designed an online survey distributed to EMS providers with questions about demographics and social media/FOAM use by providers. The survey was sent to the American College of Emergency Physicians ...
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Physician staffed helicopter emergency medical service dispatch via centralised control or directly by crew – case identification rates and effect on the Sydney paediatric trauma system
... teams actively engaged in prehospital trauma care with a detailed understanding of both the aviation and medical capabilities of the HEMS team. It is possible that centra- lised screening by paramedics who are ...
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Emergency intraosseous access in a helicopter emergency medical service: a retrospective study
... paediatric emergency patients on whom IO access was performed or attempted by our HEMS unit between May 2003 and April ...was based on a retrospective review of all medical records, and we compared ...
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Application of the emergency medical services trigger tool to measure adverse events in prehospital emergency care: a time series analysis
... Each review round was conducted independently by two primary reviewers (IH, BP) during scheduled and pro- tected review time. The primary reviewers were each operational Critical Care Paramedics employed by HMCAS, with ...
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