Research Article
Optimizing Transport Time from Accident to Hospital: When to Drive and When to Fly?
Table 1
Patient or trauma characteristics. Number (percentage) of patient characteristics per transport method.
| | | Total (n = 733) | Ambulance (n = 612) | HEMS (n = 120) |
| | High energy trauma | 483 (34%) | 399 (65%) | 84 (70%) | | Traumatic brain injury | 424 (58%) | 346 (57%) | 78 (65%) | | Intubation* | 447 (61%) | 339 (55%) | 108 (90%) | | Resuscitation | 72 (10%) | 67 (11%) | 6 (5.0%) | | Child (age < 16 years)* | 114 (16%) | 86 (14%) | 28 (23%) | | Drowning | 21 (2.9%) | 19 (3.1%) | 2 (1.7%) | | Burn wounds* | 18 (2.5%) | 11 (1.8%) | 7 (5.8%) |
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P value < 0.05.
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