Aerial evacuation of sick travellers

Roby, Howard

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb126907.x

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“…Most patients wish to return home quickly, but it can be delayed due to poor transportation systems and/or lack of specialized escort teams. [7] Despite increasing number of Korean travelers hospitalized abroad and transferred home by aeromedical team, there have been no studies investigating the medical transportation of Korean travelers from foreign countries. In this study, we analyzed the transportation experiences of Korean travelers who suffered accidents abroad and were then transferred home by our aeromedical team.…”

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Epidemiological and clinical profile of Korean travelers receiving international medical repatriation

Kim

Choi²,

Kim³

2019

Medicine

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The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of medical transportation of Korean travelers who suffered accidents abroad and then transferred home by our aeromedical team.We collected demographic and clinical data on patients injured while traveling abroad from January 2013 to July 2017. Descriptive analyses based on 4 different transportation methods and transport time since hospitalization were performed.A total of 33 patients were repatriated during the study period. Of these, 28 (84.8%) were trauma cases with pedestrian injuries being the most common (11 cases; 39.3%). Twenty patients were repatriated by flight-stretchers, 6 by flight-prestige, 2 by ship, and 5 by air ambulance. The air ambulance was the most expensive (average 61,124 US Dollars) mode of transportation (P = .001) and the ship took the longest time (14 hours) to transport patients back to Korea from regions with similar distance (P = .0023).We experienced medical repatriation of 33 seriously injured Korean travelers back to South Korea. Transfer time should be an important considering factor and directly contacting and communicating with the specialized staff of foreign hospitals could also be very important to reduce unnecessary overseas hospital stay and cost incidence.

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Epidemiological and clinical profile of Korean travelers receiving international medical repatriation

Kim

Choi²,

Kim³

2019

Medicine

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“…To the Editor: As the medical director of Customer Care Medical Assistance, which manages the travel insurance policies of most travelling Australians, I wish to reassure readers that none of the experiences chronicled by Grace and Penny 1 related to our company. I have previously described the activities of Customer Care in the Journal 2 …”

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