Patients at Risk for Transfusion-A Six-Year Multicentre Analysis of More Than 320,000 Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Missions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Europe, ambulances are increasingly being equipped with blood products for prehospital use. Available evidence on the early administration of blood products comes from military medicine and the Anglo-American medical literature; the evidence cannot be easily transferred to European countries.

Objectives

This study assesses the incidence of patients with massive haemorrhage after trauma and the potential need for prehospital blood transfusions.

Methods

Data reported by 37 German air rescue stations between 2015 and 2020 were retrospectively analysed to predict the need for massive transfusion.

Results

A total of 320,347 helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) missions were performed and involved 2982 patients with potential need for massive tra

SUBMITTER: Janig C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10706994 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature