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- Title
Ambulance helicopters for every emergency?
- Authors
Friberg, Hans; Wisborg, Torben
- Abstract
Physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) have been introduced in many countries during the last decade, based on the belief that speed of transportation and/or advanced care on scene and during transportation will benefit the most sick or severely injured patients. A recent systematic review could, however, not establish any evidence that these services had an impact on patient outcomes1 . It seems obvious that a scarce and expensive resource needs strict dispatch criteria, but unfortunately evidence-based dispatch criteria do not exist.
- Subjects
HEALTH facilities; MEDICAL personnel; HOME care services; AMBULANCES; HELICOPTERS; AIRPLANE ambulances; FUTILE medical care
- Publication
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 2020, Vol 64, Issue 9, p1232
- ISSN
0001-5172
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/aas.13676