Association of Helicopter vs Ground Emergency Medical Transportation With 1-Year Mortality in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Appropriate use of helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) is important in ensuring that patients with critical illness or injury receive adequate treatment.

Objective

To investigate the association between use of HEMS compared with use of ground EMS (GEMS) and mortality overall and in a subgroup of patients with critical illness or injury.

Design, setting, and participants

This register-based, nationwide cohort study used data retrieved from Danish registries from October 1, 2014, to April 30, 2018. Patients receiving GEMS originated from dispatched HEMS missions for which a helicopter was unavailable. For the primary analysis, patients from accepted HEMS missions and patients from missions in which HEMS was dispatched but unavailable were included. Th

SUBMITTER: Alstrup K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7801934 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature