Helicopter Emergency Medical Services
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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Helicopter emergency medical services accident rates in different international air rescue systems
... rescue helicopter “Christoph 1” was established at the Hospital of ...then, helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) have become increasingly important in the German ...
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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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Modelling optimal location for pre-hospital helicopter emergency medical services
... pital helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) has consistently demonstrated that air transport to tertiary trauma care is lifesaving and cost effective ...EMS services were ...
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Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) over-triage and the financial implications for major trauma centres in NSW, Australia
... Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) have been integrated into trauma systems to provide timely treatment and transport trauma patients to designated ...include helicopter, ...
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Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
... common medical emergency with significant mortality and significant neurological ...morbidity. Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) may be tasked to ...presumed ...
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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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Survival benefit of helicopter emergency medical services compared to ground emergency medical services in traumatized patients
... ground emergency medical services (GEMS) between 2007 and 2009 were analyzed using the TraumaRegister DGU ® of the German Society for Trauma ...of medical treatment on-scene, which involved ...
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Factors impacting on the activation and approach times of helicopter emergency medical services in four Alpine countries
... Different organization solutions mean different perfor- mance even with the same resources (crew, helicopters, medical equipment, etc.) and the same locations. We found an almost six fold differences between ...
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The reliability and accuracy of operational system data in a nationwide helicopter emergency medical services mission database
... Time-related variables are often used for quality con- trol and research; in some patient groups, such as pa- tients with sudden cardiac arrest or major trauma, the incident to treatment delay (emergency call to a ...
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Primary scene responses by Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in New South Wales Australia 2008–2009
... An important finding in our study was the high pro- portion of missions that bypassed the closest designated trauma hospital. This highlights a seldom-mentioned ad- vantage of HEMS which incorporates the crew’s ability ...
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Airway management by physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services – a prospective, multicentre, observational study of 2,327 patients
... non-CA medical pa- tients on half-height ambulance stretchers with 360- degree access, an approach adopted by many services, allows for better TI ...most services dealing with out-of- hospital ...
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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
... for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) dispatch ...trauma, emergency operators in the dispatch centre deploy the MMT simultaneously with the EMS ambu- lance crew (dispatch ...
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Qualitative evaluation of trauma delays in road traffic injury patients in Maringá, Brazil
... minimal medical training and mainly work to extricate and immobilize the ...are helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) available in Brazil and provided to the public via SAMU, at ...
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Association between helicopter with physician versus ground emergency medical services and survival of adults with major trauma in Japan
... Introduction: Helicopter emergency medical services with a physician (HEMS) has been provided in Japan since ...as helicopter services require expensive and limited ...ground ...
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Standard operating procedure changed pre-hospital critical care anaesthesiologists’ behaviour: a quality control study
... teams, emergency medical services (EMS) and helicopter emer- gency medical services (HEMS) are other examples of such ...
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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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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 ...all medical records, and we compared three techniques ...
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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
... Limitations in the amount of information contained within the data set leave some questions unanswered. It is not possible to determine from the data set why some patients were identified for physician response and ...
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EMS providers do not use FOAM for education
... In the current era of increasing use of FOAM resources for medical education, the unfamiliarity of this resource by EMS providers is alarming. These are easily accessible, free sources of information on many ...
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