Characteristics of the most severely ill and injured patients in a Norwegian helicopter emergency medical service: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) are dispatched to a variety of incidents, ranging from less serious to life-threatening. The skillset of a physician may be important to provide appropriate care for the most critically ill and severely injured patients. A better understanding of these patients may therefore be important to optimize dispatch criteria, training, and equipment setups for HEMS units. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of patients with the national advisory committee on aeronautics (NACA) score 5 and 6, primarily by diagnostic group and interventions performed.

Methods

Retrospective cohort study on aggregated data from the HEMS-base in Trondheim, Norway. All patients with NACA score 5 and 6 in the 10

SUBMITTER: Ringen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10908032 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature