Mortality and hospitalisation in the Danish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) population from 2014 to 2018: a national population-based study of HEMS triage.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe characteristics and outcomes for patients where the Danish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) either transported the patient to hospital, treated the patient on scene but did not transport the patient or was dispatched but cancelled en route to the patient (aborted mission), and to assess the field triage by comparing these outcomes.

Design

National population-based study.

Setting and participants

HEMS dispatches are undertaken from the five Danish emergency dispatch medical centres according to national guidelines. The study analysed all primary missions with helicopter take off where the patient was admitted to hospital between 1^st October 2014 and 30^th April 2018.

Main outcome measures

Mortality rates, adm

SUBMITTER: Alstrup K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462229 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature