Medevac Retrospective Review - CAEP 2010 Poster Presentation
In 2009 I reviewed all of the data that Medical Travel (NWT) collected on medevacs and urgent transports for a one year period. Here I found that there were far more people being transports on air ambulances than by using commercial flights. Some of these patients (simple upper limb fractures for example) were getting medevacs when they could have likely come on the less costly commercial flights. The question of how these cases were triaged and how the transport decisions were made was something I tried to improve on. I realized that only with high quality prospective data could one develop an evidence based algorithm to sort this out.
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