Transferred Patients by Fars Province's Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS); A 2-Years Cross-Sectional Study in Southern Iran.

Bulletin of emergency and trauma Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.30476/BEAT.2021.86919

Seyed Mahmoudreza Sajjadi, Fatemeh Rahmanian Koushkaki, Razieh Sadat Mousavi-Roknabadi, Faramarz Farahmand, Afsaneh Dehbozorgi, Hadid Hamrah, Mohammad Javad Moradian

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Abstract

Objective: To investigate the patients transferred by helicopters, as well as an emergent medical services that were performed for them.

Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, all patients who were transferred by Fars province of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) to Shiraz hospitals, southern Iran (March 2017-March 2019) were investigated. Patients' information was collected and analyzed includes age, gender, dispatch reason, trauma mechanisms, take hold of emergent medical services, as well as the air transportation time, time between dispatch from the origin hospital and starting the procedures, and patients' outcome.

Results: Eighty-three patients were enrolled with the mean±SD age of 36.9±19.47 years that 75.9% had trauma (p<0.0001). Mental status deterioration (25.3%) was the most dispatched indications. The mortality rate was 13.25% totally (11.11% in traumatic vs. 10% in non-traumatic). The mean±SD of air transportation time was significantly lower than ground transportation in both traumatic (p=0.0013) and non-traumatic (p<0.0001) patients. Also, the mean±SD of time between dispatch from the origin hospital and starting the procedures was statistically lower in air transportation in both traumatic (p=0.0028) and non-traumatic (p=0.0017) patients.

Conclusion: Most of the patients transferred by HEMS were traumatic. The air transportation time as well as the time between dispatches from the origin hospital to the starting of the procedures were significantly lower in HEMS in comparison with ground transportation for both traumatic and non-traumatic patients.

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法尔斯省直升机紧急医疗服务中心(HEMS)转移的病人;伊朗南部一项为期2年的横断面研究。

目的:了解直升机转诊患者的情况及急诊救治情况。方法:在这项回顾性横断面研究中，对2017年3月至2019年3月期间由伊朗南部法尔斯省直升机紧急医疗服务中心(HEMS)转移到设拉子医院的所有患者进行调查。收集和分析的患者信息包括年龄、性别、调派原因、创伤机制、掌握紧急医疗服务、空运时间、从原医院调派到启动程序之间的时间、患者结果。结果:83例患者入组，平均±SD年龄36.9±19.47岁，其中75.9%为创伤(pp=0.0013)、非创伤(pp=0.0028)和非创伤(p=0.0017)患者。结论:急诊急救转移患者多为创伤性患者。对于创伤和非创伤患者，医疗急救系统的空运时间以及从原医院到开始处理之间的时间都明显低于地面运输。

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Bulletin of emergency and trauma

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期刊介绍： BEAT: Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma is an international, peer-reviewed, quarterly journal coping with original research contributing to the field of emergency medicine and trauma. BEAT is the official journal of the Trauma Research Center (TRC) of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS), Hungarian Trauma Society (HTS) and Lusitanian Association for Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ALTEC/LATES) aiming to be a publication of international repute that serves as a medium for dissemination and exchange of scientific knowledge in the emergency medicine and trauma. The aim of BEAT is to publish original research focusing on practicing and training of emergency medicine and trauma to publish peer-reviewed articles of current international interest in the form of original articles, brief communications, reviews, case reports, clinical images, and letters.