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Incidence and predictors of critical events during urgent air-medical transport.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the risks of urgent air-medical transport used in regionalized health care systems. We sought to determine the incidence of in-transit critical events and identify factors associated with these events.

Methods

We conducted a population-based, retrospective cohort study using clinical and administrative data. We included all adults undergoing urgent air-medical transport in the Canadian province of Ontario between Jan. 1, 2004, and May 31, 2006. The primary outcome was in-transit critical events, which we defined as death, major resuscitative procedure, hemodynamic deterioration, or inadvertent extubation or respiratory arrest.

Results

We identified 19 228 patients who underwent air-medical transport during the study period. In-transit critical events were observed in 5.1% of all transports, for a rate of 1 event per 12.6 hours of transit time. Events consisted primarily of new hypotension or airway management procedures. Independent predictors of critical events included female sex (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 1.3, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.1-1.5), assisted ventilation before transport (adjusted OR 3.0, 95% CI 2.3-3.7), hemodynamic instability before transport (adjusted OR 3.2, 95% CI 2.5-4.1), transport in a fixed-wing aircraft (adjusted OR 1.5, 95% CI 1.2-1.8), increased duration of transport (adjusted OR 1.02 per 10-minute increment, 95% CI 1.01-1.03), on-scene calls (adjusted OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.4-2.1) and type of crew (adjusted OR 0.6 for advanced care paramedics v. critical care paramedics, 95% CI 0.5-0.7).

Interpretation

Critical events occurred in about 1 in every 20 air-medical transports and were associated with multiple risk factors at the patient, transport and system levels. These findings have implications for the refinement of training of paramedic transport crews and processes for triage and transport.

SUBMITTER: Singh JM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2764752 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Incidence and predictors of critical events during urgent air-medical transport.

Singh Jeffrey M JM MacDonald Russell D RD Bronskill Susan E SE Schull Michael J MJ

CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 20090914 9

<h4>Background</h4>Little is known about the risks of urgent air-medical transport used in regionalized health care systems. We sought to determine the incidence of in-transit critical events and identify factors associated with these events.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a population-based, retrospective cohort study using clinical and administrative data. We included all adults undergoing urgent air-medical transport in the Canadian province of Ontario between Jan. 1, 2004, and May 31, 2006. The ...[more]

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Incidence and predictors of critical events during urgent air-medical transport.

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