Efforts of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to study the role of the helicopter in emergency medical service are documented. following undertakings: (1) a report which provides information on the economic problems of emergency ambulance services and provides guidelines which planners can use in developing economical and efficient emergency ambulance service, a chapter of which is devoted to the helicopter ambulance; (2) the Emergency Care Systems Demonstration Projects in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, University of California at Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. (Council of Governments), City of Detroit, Arizona State University; Metropolitan Inter-county Council of Minnesota; and Mississippi State University. These projects were designed to provide a complete description of the emergency care system, in terms of its functional components, and to determine the subsystem design required to obtain an effective operational system. One of the subsystems examined was airborne emergency care system vehicles. These demonstration projects have shown that helicopters can be used as an emergency ambulance in a civilian emergency medical system. Important findings from the projects relative to planning for helicopter utilization in emergency services are highlighted. A description is provided of Military Assistance to Safety and Traffic (MAST), a program utilizing military helicopters and medical corpsmen as an adjunct to the existing local emergency medical service system for providing assistance to civilian victims of traffic accidents and other medical emergencies. Pertinent publications are cited.
Helicoptors in Emergency Medical Service, NHTSA Experience to Date
1972
29 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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