Cabin temperature during prehospital patient transport - a prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have investigated the patient compartment temperatures during ambulance missions or its relation to admission hypothermia. Still hypothermia is a known risk factor for increased mortality and morbidity in both trauma and disease. This has special relevance to our sub-arctic region's pre-hospital services, and we prospectively studied the environmental temperature in the patient transport compartment in both ground and air ambulances.

Methods

We recorded cabin temperature during patient transport in two ground ambulances and one ambulance helicopter in the catchment area of the University Hospital of North Norway using automatic temperature loggers. The data were collected for one month in each of the four seasons. We calculated the sum of degrees Celsi

SUBMITTER: Svendsen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7359238 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature