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Emergency Nurse, 2012
The aim of this study was to quantify how many serious motor vehicle crashes occur in rural areas more than 45 minutes drive from a major trauma centre (MTC) and in areas more than 45 minutes by helicopter from an MTC. It also sought to establish how many people involved in car crashes more than 45 minutes drive from an MTC would have to be taken to ...
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The aim of this study was to quantify how many serious motor vehicle crashes occur in rural areas more than 45 minutes drive from a major trauma centre (MTC) and in areas more than 45 minutes by helicopter from an MTC. It also sought to establish how many people involved in car crashes more than 45 minutes drive from an MTC would have to be taken to ...
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The Use of Transport by Stroke Patients
British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2001The objectives of this research were to survey the use of transport by stroke patients in the community and study its relationship to their activities of daily living and mood. The records of 90 consecutive stroke patients receiving community occupational therapy in a rehabilitation trial were surveyed for entries of therapy related ...
Logan, P. A. +2 more
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Helicopter transportation of burn patients
Burns, 2002Analysis of 437 consecutive acute burn patients transported to our burn center revealed 339 transported by ground and 98 by helicopter. There were 18 air transport patients from within a 25-mile-radius, and 80 flown further than 25 miles. Mean age was the same in all groups (P>0.05).
H, Slater, M S, O'Mara, I W, Goldfarb
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Air Transport of the Trauma Patient
AACN Advanced Critical Care, 1990Flight nursing is a rapidly growing field in critical care nursing. An understanding of the types of trauma patients that warrant helicopter transport is important to any well functioning trauma system. The assessments and interventions necessary in transporting trauma patients are addressed. Safety, environmental, and psychosocial issues that surround
B, Higgins, V, Popil
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Transport of Critically Ill Patients
Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, 1992Critically ill patients are transported within and between hospitals on a regular basis; thus, transport of the critically ill is a component of most intensivists-practice. The motivation for these transports lies in obtaining diagnostic or therapeutic services not available at the bedside (intrahospital transport) or not available in the sending ...
R E, Fromm, R P, Dellinger
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Transporting critically ill patients
British Journal of Nursing, 1995Some 10000 patients a year are moved to or between intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK (Royal College of Anaesthetists, 1989). This figure looks set to increase considerably with plans to further develop regional ICUs already under discussion.
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Patient Transport and Brain Oxygen in Comatose Patients
Neurosurgery, 2010Transport of critically ill intensive care unit patients may be hazardous. We examined whether brain oxygen (brain tissue oxygen partial pressure [PbtO2]) is influenced by transport to and from a follow-up head computed tomography (transport head computed tomography [tHCT]) scan.Forty-five patients (24 men, 21 women; Glasgow Coma Scale score < or =8 ...
Edward W, Swanson +7 more
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Patient rescue and transportation
2020This chapter provides the principles of patient rescue and transportation. It starts with immobilization and extrication, and then goes on to look at types of extrication (conventional, rapid, and snatch rescue), the principles of immobilization (prevention of further injury, pain relief, reduction of blood loss and the incidence of fat emboli, and ...
Ian Greaves, Keith Porter
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The risk of intrahospital transport to patients
Critical Care Nurse, 2010Letter to the editor on the paper entitled: Day D. Keeping patients safe during intrahospital transport. Crit Care Nurse. 2010 Aug;30(4):18-32; quiz 33. doi: 10.4037/ccn2010446. Epub 2010 Apr 30. PMID: 20436033.
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Patients Transportation in Surgery Scheduling Problem
Journal of Systems Science and ComplexityzbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Nacira Chikhi, Boualem Djehiche
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