Accuracy between prehospital and hospital diagnosis in helicopter emergency medical services and its consequences for trauma care.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

For optimal prehospital trauma care, it is essential to adequately recognize potential life-threatening injuries in order to correctly triage patients and to initiate life-saving measures. The aim of the present study was to determine the accuracy of prehospital diagnoses suspected by helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS).

Methods

This retrospective multicenter study included patients from the Swiss Trauma Registry with ISS ≥ 16 or AIS head ≥ 3 transported by Switzerland's largest HEMS and subsequently admitted to one of twelve Swiss trauma centers from 01/2020 to 12/2020. The primary outcome was the comparison of injuries suspected prehospital with the final diagnoses obtained at the hospital using the abbreviated injury scale (AIS) per body region. As second

SUBMITTER: Muller M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11458725 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature