Retrospective review of injury severity, interventions and outcomes among helicopter and nonhelicopter transport patients at a Level 1 urban trauma centre | Zendy

R. Scott Hannay | Zendy; Amy D. Wyrzykowski | Zendy; Chad G. Ball | Zendy; Kevin B. Laupland | Zendy; David V. Feliciano | Zendy

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Retrospective review of injury severity, interventions and outcomes among helicopter and nonhelicopter transport patients at a Level 1 urban trauma centre

Author(s) -

R. Scott Hannay,

Amy D. Wyrzykowski,

Chad G. Ball,

Kevin B. Laupland,

David V. Feliciano

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.000113

Subject(s) - medicine , psychological intervention , retrospective cohort study , injury severity score , emergency medicine , injury prevention , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , medical emergency , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , physical therapy , surgery , psychiatry , pathology

Air ambulance transport for injured patients is vitally important given increasing patient volumes, the limited number of trauma centres and inadequate subspecialty coverage in nontrauma hospitals. Air ambulance services have been shown to improve patient outcomes compared with ground transport in select circumstances. Our primary goal was to compare injuries, interventions and outcomes in patients transported by helicopter versus nonhelicopter transport.

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