Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Breathing easier - good news from air medicine. | Available online http content 12 4 164 Commentary Breathing easier - good news from air medicine Thomas Judge LifeFlight of Maine Eastern Maine Medical Center Kagan-4 402 State Street Bangor ME 04401 USA Corresponding author Thomas Judge tjudge@ Published 10 July 2008 This article is online at http content 12 4 164 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2008 12 164 doi cc6934 See related research by Seymour et al. http content 12 3 R71 Abstract Safety in transport is a major concern. Air medical crashes are in the public eye but a greater risk of transport may be in the clinical care provided along the way. While the media focuses on the drama of helicopters landing on scene the greatest and most common risk actually occurs during inter-hospital transport. For too long transport has been a black hole in clinical medicine and the real rate of adverse events is unknown. New work from the University of Pennsylvania should make us all breathe a little easier. Dr Seymour and colleagues 1 present us with an important new look into adverse events in transport. While the majority of studies on safety of transport focus on the risk to patients of injury or fatality incurred by the transport modality itself 2-6 a less reviewed but probably more important risk profile is that of the actual care delivered to critically ill patients during transport. Transport is often a black hole in medicine. The transport interval however is among the least measured and highest risk time periods for patients. As noted in a recent publication of evidence on the safety of care by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 7 the care of critically ill patients routinely requires both intra- and inter-hospital transport of high risk patients and practices to reduce or minimize this necessary risk represent a potentially important area of patient safety research. The study of Seymour and colleagues 1 is retrospective and thus limited to .
