Air Medical Journal
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 38-44 , January 2007

Results and recommendations from the helicopter EMS pilot safety survey 2005

  • MarkAlain Dery, DO, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Tulane University School of Medicine
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: MarkAlain Dery, Tulane University School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section, Department of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave., SL-87, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
    • ,
  • Jack Hustuit

      Affiliations

    • Keystone Flight Services
    • ,
  • Greg Boschert

      Affiliations

    • Allegheny LifeFlight
    • ,
  • John Wish, PhD

References 

  1. Blumen IJ, and the UCAN Safety Committee. A Safety Review and Risk Assessment in Air Medical Transport. Supplement to the Air Medical Physician Handbook (November 2002).
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  3. Bledsoe BE . Medical helicopter accidents in the United States: a 10-year review . J Trauma . 2004;56:1325–1328
  4. Baker S , Grabowski J , et al.   EMS helicopter crashes: what influences fatal outcome? . Ann Emerg Med . 2006;47:351–356
  5. Shatz D , Delgado J . Letter to the editor of The Journal of Trauma: injury, infection, and critical care . J Trauma . 2005;58:881–882
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  7. Helmreich RL , Wilhelm JA , Gregorich SE , Chidester TR . Preliminary results from the evaluation of cockpit resource management training: performance ratings of flightcrews . Aviat Space Environ Med . 1990;61:576–579

PII: S1067-991X(06)00234-3

doi: 10.1016/j.amj.2006.08.002

Air Medical Journal
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 38-44 , January 2007

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