ArticleAnnals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England2007
Helicopter Emergency Ambulance Service (HEAS) transfer: an analysis of trauma patient case-mix, injury severity and outcome.
Article in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Helicopter emergency medical services for adults with major trauma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
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- Helicopter Ambulance Transport to the Emergency Department: Demographic and Clinical Factors Impacting Outcomes in a Turkish Medical Center.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2023Article
- Use of Helicopter Medical Transportation to the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.Neurocritical care · 2022Article
- Early diagnosis of traumatic intracranial hematomas.Journal of biomedical optics · 2019Review
- Retrospective review of injury severity, interventions and outcomes among helicopter and nonhelicopter transport patients at a Level 1 urban trauma centre.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2014Article
- Primary scene responses by Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in New South Wales Australia 2008-2009.BMC health services research · 2012Article
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Abstract
introductionA retrospective review of all patients transferred by helicopter ambulance to the Great Western Hospital over a 20-month period between January 2003 and September 2004 was undertaken to establish the case-mix of patients (trauma and non-trauma) transferred and the outcome. PATIENTS AND
methodsDetails of all Helicopter Emergency Ambulance Service (HEAS) transfers to this unit in the study time period were obtained from the three HEAS providers in the area and case notes were reviewed.
resultsThere were 156 trauma patients transferred (total 193) in the study period with 111 cases identified for analysis with a mean age of 33 years (range, 1-92 years). Average Injury Severity Score on admission was 12 (range, 1-36). Forty-five patients were discharged home from the emergency department, 24 cases had operation, 10 patients required ICU care and 2 were pronounced dead in the emergency department. Average hospital stay following HEAS transfer was 2.97 days (range, 0-18 days). DISCUSSION: Helicopter ambulance transfer in the acute setting is of debated value. Triage criteria are at fault if as many as 41% of patients transferred are being discharged home from casualty having incurred the financial cost of helicopter transfer. We suggest that the triage criteria for helicopter emergency transfer should be reviewed.
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