RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Ambulance and aeromedical accident rates during emergency retrieval in Great Britain
JF Emergency Medicine Journal
JO Emerg Med J
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
SP 301
OP 302
DO 10.1136/emj.2007.046557
VO 25
IS 5
A1 D Lutman
A1 M Montgomery
A1 P Ramnarayan
A1 A Petros
YR 2008
UL http://emj.bmj.com/content/25/5/301.abstract
AB The retrieval of critically ill patients is frequently done in difficult circumstances and often under considerable time pressures. These adverse conditions have a finite risk of serious injury or death. The level of risk is poorly described in the literature and reliable data on accident rates are hard to find. Most of the information comes from North America. There are no clear published statistics for the UK. We report for the first time data on accidents and casualties involving vehicles classified as having an ambulance body type and air ambulances within Great Britain between 1999 and 2004.