Aeromedical retrieval services characteristics globally: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Aeromedical emergency retrieval services play an important role in supporting patients with critical and often life-threatening clinical conditions. Aeromedical retrieval services help to provide fast access to definitive care for critically ill patients in under-served regions. Typically, fixed-wing aeromedical retrieval becomes the most viable transport option compared with rotary-wing aircraft when distances away from centres of definitive care extend beyond 200 kms. To our knowledge, there are no studies that have investigated fixed-wing aeromedical services in the member countries of the organisation for economic cooperation and development (OECD). A description of the global characteristics of aeromedical services will inform international collaboration to optimise

SUBMITTER: Muyambi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9743498 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature