Open AccessThe usefulness of physician-staffed helicopters for managing severe abdominal trauma patients
Author(s) -
Kei Jitsuiki,
Hiroki Nagasawa,
Kenichi Muramatsu,
Ikuto Takeuchi,
Hiromichi Ohsaka,
Kouhei Ishikawa,
Youichi Yanagawa
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/jets.jets_96_21
Subject(s) - medicine , multivariate analysis , revised trauma score , injury severity score , blunt , univariate analysis , blunt trauma , abdominal trauma , emergency medicine , penetrating trauma , retrospective cohort study , emergency medical services , univariate , poison control , surgery , injury prevention , multivariate statistics , statistics , mathematics
We retrospectively investigated prognostic factors for severe abdominal trauma patients evacuated by a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) and ground ambulance using the Japan Trauma Data Bank (JTDB).