Helicopter Ambulance Transport to the Emergency Department: Demographic and Clinical Factors Impacting Outcomes in a Turkish Medical Center

Habibe Selmin Özensoy; Selahattin Gürü

doi:10.12659/MSM.941464

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 ^ABCDEFG

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.941464

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e941464

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Table 5 Survival and mortality rates of patients transferred from another hospital by HAs to a single center diagnosed with a cardiac disease or a trauma-related injury upon ED arrival.

	Survival (n (%))	Mortality (n (%))	p

Districts in the same province	55 (90.2)	6 (9.8)	^a
Other provinces	4 (57.1)	3 (42.9)
Distance transferred by HAs (km)	139.6±10.9	221.9±69.3	0.219^b

Districts in the same province	22 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	^a
Other provinces	3 (60.0)	2 (40.0)	0.451^b
	184.8±46.5	411.0±282.0
^a Fisher exact test; ^b Mann-Whitney U test; n – number of cases; HAs – helicopter ambulances; km – kilometers.

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