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Analysis of the Activities of a Physician-Staffed Helicopter in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Phase
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the duration of activity of a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) in Eastern Shizuoka Prefecture before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. METHODS: We retrospectively investigated the duration...
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Air Medical Journal Associates. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9119741/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35750444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amj.2022.04.007 |
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author | Ohsaka, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Hiroki Ota, Soichiro Muramatsu, Ken-ichi Jitsuiki, Kei Ishikawa, Kouhei Yanagawa, Youichi |
author_facet | Ohsaka, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Hiroki Ota, Soichiro Muramatsu, Ken-ichi Jitsuiki, Kei Ishikawa, Kouhei Yanagawa, Youichi |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the duration of activity of a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) in Eastern Shizuoka Prefecture before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. METHODS: We retrospectively investigated the duration of dispatch activities from February 2020 to June 2021 (pandemic group, n = 1,032) and from April 2016 to January 2020 (control group, n = 3,054). RESULTS: There were no significant differences in the average age, percentage of male patients, interval from the request of HEMS dispatch to arrival, interval from arrival at the scene to leaving the scene, interval from leaving the scene to arrival at the hospital, or the ratio of requests for HEMS dispatch from the local fire department between the control and pandemic groups. In contrast, the interval from the first call to HEMS dispatch in the control group was significantly shorter than that in the pandemic group, and the ratio of requests for HEMS dispatch before contacting patients in the control group was significantly greater than that in the pandemic group. CONCLUSION: The interval from the first call to HEMS dispatch was prolonged in the COVID-19 pandemic period. However, the actual activity time of the HEMS was not affected. |
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spelling | pubmed-91197412022-05-20 Analysis of the Activities of a Physician-Staffed Helicopter in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Phase Ohsaka, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Hiroki Ota, Soichiro Muramatsu, Ken-ichi Jitsuiki, Kei Ishikawa, Kouhei Yanagawa, Youichi Air Med J Original Research OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the duration of activity of a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) in Eastern Shizuoka Prefecture before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. METHODS: We retrospectively investigated the duration of dispatch activities from February 2020 to June 2021 (pandemic group, n = 1,032) and from April 2016 to January 2020 (control group, n = 3,054). RESULTS: There were no significant differences in the average age, percentage of male patients, interval from the request of HEMS dispatch to arrival, interval from arrival at the scene to leaving the scene, interval from leaving the scene to arrival at the hospital, or the ratio of requests for HEMS dispatch from the local fire department between the control and pandemic groups. In contrast, the interval from the first call to HEMS dispatch in the control group was significantly shorter than that in the pandemic group, and the ratio of requests for HEMS dispatch before contacting patients in the control group was significantly greater than that in the pandemic group. CONCLUSION: The interval from the first call to HEMS dispatch was prolonged in the COVID-19 pandemic period. However, the actual activity time of the HEMS was not affected. Air Medical Journal Associates. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022 2022-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9119741/ /pubmed/35750444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amj.2022.04.007 Text en © 2022 Air Medical Journal Associates. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Ohsaka, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Hiroki Ota, Soichiro Muramatsu, Ken-ichi Jitsuiki, Kei Ishikawa, Kouhei Yanagawa, Youichi Analysis of the Activities of a Physician-Staffed Helicopter in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Phase |
title | Analysis of the Activities of a Physician-Staffed Helicopter in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Phase |
title_full | Analysis of the Activities of a Physician-Staffed Helicopter in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Phase |
title_fullStr | Analysis of the Activities of a Physician-Staffed Helicopter in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Phase |
title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of the Activities of a Physician-Staffed Helicopter in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Phase |
title_short | Analysis of the Activities of a Physician-Staffed Helicopter in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Phase |
title_sort | analysis of the activities of a physician-staffed helicopter in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic phase |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9119741/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35750444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amj.2022.04.007 |
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