title: Patients transported by helicopter fare better.
abstract: The care your patients get before they arrive in your ED is critically important to their survival and well-being. View the air transport vehicle as an extension of your department. Be sure the nurses staffing the helicopter have additional training in airway management. If your program is hospital-based, be sure you have the last word on the most appropriate staffing model.
mesh_terms: D017732:Air Ambulances / Q000592:standards*; D000552:Ambulances / Q000592:standards*; D001930:Brain Injuries; D002140:California; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D016529:Emergency Nursing; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000379:methods*