Physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service has a beneficial impact on the incidence of prehospital hypoxia and secured airways on patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Toni Pakkanen; Antti Kamarainen; Heini Huhtala; Tom Silfvast; Jouni Nurmi; Ilkka Virkkunen; Arvi Yli-Hankala

doi:10.1186/s13049-017-0438-1

Physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service has a beneficial impact on the incidence of prehospital hypoxia and secured airways on patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Toni Pakkanen, Antti Kamarainen, Heini Huhtala, Tom Silfvast, Jouni Nurmi, Ilkka Virkkunen, Arvi Yli-Hankala

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Original language	English
Article number	94
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Volume	25
Number of pages	7
ISSN	1757-7241
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-017-0438-1
Publication status	Published - 15 Sep 2017
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

Prehospital emergency care (MeSH)
Emergency medical services (MeSH)
Critical care (MeSH)
Traumatic brain injury (MeSH)
Airway management (MeSH)
Endotracheal intubation (MeSH)
Patient outcome assessment (MeSH)
Glasgow outcome scale (MeSH)
SEVERE HEAD-INJURY
RAPID-SEQUENCE INTUBATION
PRACTICAL SCALE
SURVIVAL
MORTALITY
MANAGEMENT
3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology

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Pakkanen, T., Kamarainen, A., Huhtala, H., Silfvast, T., Nurmi, J., Virkkunen, I., & Yli-Hankala, A. (2017). Physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service has a beneficial impact on the incidence of prehospital hypoxia and secured airways on patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 25, [94]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-017-0438-1

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Physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service has a beneficial impact on the incidence of prehospital hypoxia and secured airways on patients with severe traumatic brain injury. / Pakkanen, Toni; Kamarainen, Antti; Huhtala, Heini et al.

In: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, Vol. 25, 94, 15.09.2017.

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Pakkanen T, Kamarainen A, Huhtala H, Silfvast T, Nurmi J, Virkkunen I et al. Physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service has a beneficial impact on the incidence of prehospital hypoxia and secured airways on patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. 2017 Sep 15;25:94. doi: 10.1186/s13049-017-0438-1