title: International airport and emergency medical care.
abstract: The Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic (Airport Clinic) was opened in 1992 as Japan's first 24-hour international airport clinic. To date, it has provided medical services to a total of 117,953 patients. Of these, 85,545 (72.5%) were airport employees, 28,662 (24.3%) were passengers, and 3,746 (3.2%) were others. Of the total, non-Japanese patients accounted for 8,485 (7.2%). In the year to March 31, 2001, the Clinic treated an average of 43.9 cases per day. The number of emergency patients was 2,969 or 2.3% of the total, of whom 500 (0.4%) were non-Japanese. There were 47 deaths, with age ranging from 14 to 84 (average age 64.0). The ratio of males to females who died was 28:19. Of the 47 deaths, 18 were non-Japanese. Pulmonary thromboembolism is considered to have played a role in 25 of the deaths. Based on more than 8 years of airport clinical experience, we believe that a first-class international airport should have excellent medical facilities that can provide quality emergency medical services to travelers and disaster victims.
authors.affiliation: Nippon Medical School, New Tokyo International Airport Clinic, 1-1 Azafurugome, Furugome Narita-shi, Chiba 282-0004, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Makino
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: Kitoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takuhiro
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koido
authors.forename: Kunihiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mashiko
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Chitoshi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shimazaki
authors.forename: Kiyohiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamashita
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014195:Travel