In-Flight Medical Emergencies during Commercial Travel  

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Nable, Jose V. ; Tupe, Christina L. ; Gehle, Bruce D. ; Brady, William J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 373 no. 10 (Sep. 2015), page 939-945.

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Physicians who travel may be asked to render care to a passenger who is having a medical emergency during a commercial flight. A considerable proportion of passengers in whom medical issues develop during travel require hospitalization. Therefore, health care providers should understand which in-flight medical emergencies occur commonly as well as the roles the providers can play and the liabilities they may incur when offering assistance. Estimating the frequency of in-flight medical events is challenging because no mandatory reporting system exists.1 A study of a ground-based communications center that provides medical consultative service to airlines estimated that medical emergencies occur in 1 of every 604 flights.2 This is likely to be an underestimate, however, because uncomplicated issues are probably underreported.

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