15 September 2023: Clinical Research
Helicopter Ambulance Transport to the Emergency Department: Demographic and Clinical Factors Impacting Outcomes in a Turkish Medical Center
Habibe Selmin Özensoy ABCDEFG* , Selahattin Gürü ABCDEFGDOI: 10.12659/MSM.941464
Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e941464
Table 4 Trauma mechanisms and trauma-related daignoses of injured patients transferred by HA to a single center from other hospitals.
| Mechanisms (diagnose) | n (27) |
|---|---|
| Traffic accident (sacrum fracture) | 1 |
| Traffic accident (nasal fracture) | 1 |
| Traffic accident (pneumothorax, spleen laceration) | 2 |
| Traffic accident (tibia/fibula fracture) | 1 |
| Traffic accident (femur fracture) | 2 |
| Fall from own height (femur fracture) | 5 |
| Battered (rib fracture) | 1 |
| Battered (liver laceration) | 1 |
| Thermal burn | 5 |
| Industrial injury (deep cut in the knee) | 1 |
| Industrial injury (tendon cut) | 1 |
| Industrial injury (tibia fracture) | 1 |
| Falling from height (lumber fracture) | 3 |
| Gunshot wound (duodenum and colon perforation) | 1 |
| Electrical burn | 1 |
| N – number of cases; HA – helicopter ambulance. | |