Abstract
The air ambulance system in Norway was established in 1988 and its main purpose was to provide rapid advanced medical care, assist health-care providers in the municipalities in cases of emergency, and provide expedient patient transport to definite care. During the last decade, local emergency infrastructure has changed, often resulting in centralisation of GP (general practitioner) on-call services. The aim of the present survey is to describe the involvement of the GP on-call in emergency medical situations attended by the air ambulance in a rural part of Norway.
Highlights
The air ambulance system in Norway was established in 1988 and its main purpose was to provide rapid advanced medical care, assist health-care providers in the municipalities in cases of emergency, and provide expedient patient transport to definite care.During the last decade, local emergency infrastructure has changed, often resulting in centralisation of GP on-call services
Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 Hans Morten Lossius, Eldar Søreide and Kjetil G Ringdal Publication of this supplement was supported by Akuttjournalen Arena AS Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1757-7241-17-S3-info.pdf
Mean response interval for the air ambulance was 27 minutes
Summary
Address: 1Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway and 2Dep. Of Anaesthesiology and Acute Care, St. Olavs Hospital, Norway * Corresponding author from Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 Stavanger, Norway. Published: 28 August 2009 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009, 17(Suppl 3):O27 doi:10.1186/1757-7241-17-S3-O27. Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 Hans Morten Lossius, Eldar Søreide and Kjetil G Ringdal Publication of this supplement was supported by Akuttjournalen Arena AS Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1757-7241-17-S3-info.pdf
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