Re: Articles Supporting Air Medical Transport

["Jeff Brosius" <reno316@hotmail.com>]

If you're looking to make a valid argument supporting Air Transport to 
someone who does not belive in it, I'd suggest staying away from anything 
printed in Air Medical Journal.  While I enjoy the literature they print, we 
must admit there is a bias, and therefore the data presented is suspect 
(Please... I mean no offense to my colleagues at AMJ, but the immediate 
argument from the opponents of air transport would be "Of course that 
journal publishes supporting data... they've got an agenda.")

My suggestions, assuming you've already done a PubMed/MedLine search 
(keywords:

Flight, Helicopter, Air Medical, and Prehosptial,) would be:

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Baxt WG, Moody P: The impact of a rotorcraft aeromedical emergency care 
service on
trauma mortality. JAMA 1983 Jun 10; 249(22): 3047-51.

Baxt WG, Moody P, Cleveland HC, et al: Hospital-based rotorcraft aeromedical
emergency care services and trauma mortality: a multicenter study.
Ann Emerg Med 1985 Sep; 14(9): 859-64.

Black RE, Mayer T, Walker ML, et al: Special report. Air transport of 
pediatric
emergency cases. N Engl J Med 1982 Dec 2; 307(23): 1465-8.

Boyd CR, Corse KM, Campbell RC: Emergency interhospital transport of the 
major
trauma patient: air versus ground. J Trauma 1989 Jun; 29(6): 789-93; 
discussion 793-4.

Kaplan L, Walsh D, Burney RE: Emergency aeromedical transport of patients 
with
acute myocardial infarction. Ann Emerg Med 1987 Jan; 16(1): 55-7.

Low RB, Martin D, Brown C: Emergency air transport of pregnant patients:
the national experience. J Emerg Med 1988 Jan-Feb; 6(1): 41-8.

Moylan JA, Fitzpatrick KT, Beyer AJ 3d, Georgiade GS: Factors improving 
survival
in multisystem trauma patients. Ann Surg 1988 Jun; 207(6): 679-85.

Suominen P, Silfvast T, Korpela R, Erosuo J: Pediatric prehospital care 
provided by
a physician-staffed emergency medical helicopter unit in Finland. Pediatr
Emerg Care 1996 Jun; 12(3): 169-72.

Thomson DP, Thomas SH: Guidelines for air medical dispatch. Prehosp Emerg 
Care
2003 Apr-Jun; 7(2): 265-71.

Others that provide interesting reading:

Davis DP, Ochs M, Hoyt DB, Bailey D, Marshall LK, Rosen P.  
Paramedic-administered
neuromuscular blockade improves prehospital intubation success in severely
head-injured patients.  J Trauma. 2003 Oct;55(4):713-9.

Bredmose PP, Hoybjor S, Sjoborg KA, Wisborg T.  Prehospital thrombolysis
in acute myocardial infarction in a very sparsely inhabited area in northern 
Norway.
Eur J Emerg Med. 2003 Sep;10(3):176-9.

Silbergleit R, Scott PA, Lowell MJ, Silbergleit R. Cost-effectiveness of 
helicopter
transport of stroke patients for thrombolysis.  Acad Emerg Med. 2003 
Sep;10(9):966-72.

Porter KM. The utility of helicopter transport of trauma patients from the
injury scene in an urban trauma system.  J Trauma. 2003 Jul;55(1):184.
****

These should provide plenty of bathroom reading, unless you've got a diet 
high in fiber or some chronic intestinal disease.

------------
JRB

Jeff Brosius,
Paramedic, etc.
"Here we go again, my friend...
here's to you and me and our stupidity."  -- T. Bradley





> From: Uncferret@aol.com
> Reply-To: Flightmed <flightmed@flightweb.com>
> To: flightmed@flightweb.com
> Subject: Articles Supporting Air Medical Transport
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:56:34 EDT
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to find valid journal articles that support the use of air
> medical transport (fixed wing and rotor wing).  If any one knows of an 
> article,
> please email me back off the Archive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Uncferret@aol.com
>
>
> Tracey Stover-Wall
> Nurse, Medic, Brian's Wife
> Columbia, MO
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