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ArticleThe American surgeon2018

Helicopter Transport Use for Trauma Patients Is Decreasing Significantly Nationwide but Remains Overutilized.

Navpreet K Dhillon, Nikhil T Linaval, Kavita A Patel, Christos Colovos, Ara Ko, Daniel R Margulies, Eric J Ley, Galinos Barmparas

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Article in The American surgeon, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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8 authors.

Navpreet K DhillonDepartment of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Nikhil T Linaval
Kavita A Patel
Christos Colovos
Ara Ko
Daniel R Margulies
Eric J Ley
Galinos Barmparas

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid transfer of trauma patients to a trauma center for definitive management is essential to increase survival. The utilization of helicopter transportation for this purpose remains heavily debated. The purpose of this study was to characterize the trends in helicopter transportations of trauma patients in the United States over the last decade. Subjects with a primary mode of either ground or helicopter transportation were selected from the National Trauma Data Bank datasets 2007 to 2015. Over this period, the proportion of patients transported by a helicopter decreased significantly in a linear fashion from 17 per cent in 2007 to 10.2 per cent in 2015 (

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AdultAgedAir AmbulancesAircraftEmergency Medical ServicesEquipment and Supplies UtilizationHumansLength of StayMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesTransportation of PatientsTrauma CentersTriageUnited StatesUnnecessary ProceduresWounds and Injuries

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PMID30747684

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