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Coordination with Ground Emergency Medical Services in Cardiac and Respiratory Emergencies in Flight (abstract)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Stephen W. Carveth  and
William H. Montgomery
Stephen W. Carveth
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, 5440 South Street, Suite 1200, Lincoln, Nebraska 68506, USA.
William H. Montgomery
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, 5440 South Street, Suite 1200, Lincoln, Nebraska 68506, USA.
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Emergency Medical Services (EMS) have taken great strides toward the development of city and statewide programs. However, once a person embarks on a plane or on a ship for any extended period of time, the EMS are at times meager and at other times not coordinated well with ground EMS. The American Heart Association has developed a protocol for basic and advanced cardiac life support to exist in all major air terminals, and especially within aircraft of all types. Particularly important are those aircrafts carrying large numbers of people for extended periods of time.

Type
Section Four—Air Rescue
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Military and Disaster Medicine , Spring 1985 , pp. 75
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985