Mountain rescue transport.
Death on Scottish mountains during a thirteen-year period were reviewed. Only five of 175 fatalities occurred during the stretcher journey: 200 patients were carried down alive. This review produced little evidence of serious harm from mountain rescue transport.
D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006323:Heart Arrest; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009051:Mountaineering; D012253:Rib Fractures; D012771:Shock, Hemorrhagic; D012887:Skull Fractures; D014187:Transportation of Patients; D014947:Wounds and Injuries