Ejection as a key word for the dispatch of a physician staffed helicopter: the Swiss experience

Validity of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Dispatch Criteria for Traumatic Injuries: A Systematic Review

“…Five of the 34 manuscripts retrieved addressed accuracy of HEMS dispatch criteria ( Table 3). Three of these studies were level III (cohort) evidence [9][10][11] , one was level IV (case control) 12 and one was level V (case series) 13 .…”

Undertreatment of acute pain (oligoanalgesia) and medical practice variation in prehospital analgesia of adult trauma patients: a 10 yr retrospective study

“…13 The physician is either a member of the ED staff or is a resident. Residents rotate to the ED for 6 or 12 months from the internal medicine or anaesthesiology residency programmes of our institution, after having completed a minimum of 1 yr of residency in the anaesthesiology department.…”

“…On average, physicians had 5.7 yr of postgraduate training (Table 1). The median number of missions per physician was [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], with a range of 1-54 missions (Fig. 2).…”

Knowledge of Glasgow coma scale by air-rescue physicians

“…In Switzerland, as in most Europeans countries, out-of-hospital trauma care is provided by physicians on board helicopters or fast-response cars [ 16 , 17 ]. The qualifications of the on-board physicians vary between registrars to consultants and their specialty may be anesthesia, general medicine, internal medicine or others.…”