Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2017
A review of the burns caseload of a physician-based helicopter emergency medical service.
The aim of this study was to describe patient demographics, injuries, physiology and interventions performed by retrieval physicians in the care of burns patients in both a pre-hospital and interhospital setting. ⋯ The Service cares for 80-100 burns patients annually, a proportion of whom require complex interventions such as intubation and escharotomy, which was performed by retrieval physicians appropriately. Associated traumatic injuries were infrequent in patients who sustained burns from flashes or explosions.