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Helicopter Ambulance Missions in Stockholm, Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Bo Brismar  and
Alv Alveryd
Bo Brismar
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Heddinge University Hospital, S–141 86 Huddinge, Sweden
Alv Alveryd
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Heddinge University Hospital, S–141 86 Huddinge, Sweden
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In the county of Stockholm with 2 million inhabitants and an area of 6,500 km2 , a trial project with a helicopter ambulance, staffed by physicians, was carried out during the summer seasons of 1978 to 1980. A total of 507 missions were accomplished.

The Trial Project. During the summer a large number of tourists visit the Stockholm archipelago. For these people there is a problem in the event of acute illness or accident to get qualified medical care without delay. A Bell 206 Long Ranger was based at Barkarby airport just outside the city of Stockholm. This was manned by doctors, ambulance personnel and a pilot, and was supplied with an emergency kit, intubation equipment, a portable ECG apparatus and a defibrillator.

Type
Section Four—Air Rescue
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Military and Disaster Medicine , Spring 1985 , pp. 60 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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