Sir, We read the article by Rouse'with concern. His study of the Cornwall helicopter relies on one feature of the air ambulance to decide its viability, namely the ORCON standard. The author mentions in his article that it "lacks credibility for several reasons" but then sets it as the hallmark for a good service. ORCON only states a response time. This is the second component in the therapy fr...

The sixth London Trauma Conference was held at the Royal Geographical Society in London between 4 and 7 December. More than 500 delegates and speakers from twenty countries gathered to hear about best practice and innovation in trauma care, pre-hospital care and major incident management. In addition the Norwegian Air Ambulance hosted a day devoted to air ambulance medicine and a parallel sympo...

INTRODUCTION A growing number of individuals with significant medical histories travel for business and holidays. Precise anticipation and stratification of transport-relevant illness severity in the planning stage of an air medical evacuation is crucial for mission success and patient safety. METHODS We developed a staging system (ie, Stratification of Air Medical Transport by Expression of ...

BACKGROUND Advanced decision-support capabilities for prehospital trauma care may prove effective at improving patient care. Such functionality would be possible if an analysis platform were connected to a transport vital-signs monitor. In practice, there are technical challenges to implementing such a system. Not only must each individual component be reliable, but, in addition, the connectivi...

OBJECTIVE Air ambulances provide patients with timely access to referral centers. Nonemergent transfers are planned for efficient aircraft use. This study compares a novel flight planning optimization application to traditional planning methods. METHODS This prospective study compared real-world use of the application to traditional methods in a large air medical system. Each day was randomiz...

The Federal Aviation Administration announced a final rule in February 2014 that includes a requirement for helicopter air ambulance operators to institute preflight risk analysis programs. This qualitative study examined risk factors that were described in 22 preliminary, factual, and probable cause helicopter air ambulance accident and incident reports that were initiated by the National Tran...

The risk of dying or being injured as a result traffic collisions is higher for medical emergency responders than other professional drivers. This systematic review synthesizes the literature regarding ambulances, focusing on prevalence and characteristics surrounding such events. Keywords including paramedics were searched in papers available PubMed from January 1990 to July 2021. Two independ...

One of the most vital aspects emergency management studies is development and examination post-disaster search rescue activities treatment facilities. such issues to be considered while performing these operations reach disaster victims within minimum time plan logistics in efficient manner possible. In this study, problem planning debris scanning with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles after an earthqua...