Air medical journal
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Air medical journal · Jan 2008
Characteristics of patients transported by an aeromedical service for acute toxicologic emergencies: a 5-year experience.
Aeromedical services are used routinely in the prehospital and interhospital transfer of patients with trauma, neurosurgical, cardiac, and other conditions requiring specialized care. The use of aeromedical transport in patients with acute toxicologic emergencies is not well described. We sought to investigate and describe the characteristics of patients transported by our aeromedical service. ⋯ Acute toxicologic emergencies accounted for a small percentage of total transports. The most common additional intervention by flight crews was endotracheal intubation. Identification of common poisonings encountered by flight crews may assist services in developing education and quality assurance programs.
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Understanding referring practitioners' satisfaction with pediatric transport services is useful for quality improvement. Formal survey methodology was applied to develop a pediatric transport satisfaction survey. ⋯ Survey design methodology was successfully applied to assess satisfaction with pediatric transport. This transport survey offers a reliable measurement of providers' satisfaction with transport services.