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- Title
Secondary patient transfer by air: an audit of 3 years' experience of the Royal Air Force in the world-wide transport of critically ill patients.
- Authors
Spittal, M. J.; Hunter, S. J.; Spencer, I.; Blake, D.; McLaren, C. A. B.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the transportation facilities offered to critically ill patients by British Royal Air Force in Great Britain. The Royal Air Force offers its services to transport the patients by air when they face life threatening complications. The article offers various tables that depict medical conditions of adults and children and application of a simplified acute physiology scoring system to assess the severity of illness of patients.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; GREAT Britain. Royal Air Force; TRANSPORTATION; CATASTROPHIC illness; CHARTS, diagrams, etc.; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1992, Vol 85, Issue 12, p730
- ISSN
0141-0768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/014107689208501207