The impact of emergency medical helicopters on prehospital care.
Emergency medical helicopter services have grown exponentially over the past seventeen years. These services offer rapid transport by flight crews to tertiary care centers with a higher level of medical capabilities. An impact because of helicopters on survival has been well-documented for trauma patients. Assessing usage for other critical care patients remains to be delineated further.
Gabram
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University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford.
Jacobs
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