Extract: Critical care transport organizations are nimble, operationally focused institutions that can aid in managing crises. Ornge provides air ambulance and critical care transport services…
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This website is initiated by the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation as a forum for both obtaining and sharing information and solutions as well as discussing various questions specifically concerning COVID-19 and the complications of air ambulance services in this context.
Abstract: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a substantial impact on the incidence of cardiac arrest and survival. The challenge is to find the correct…
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German rescue service DRF Lufrettung has presented findings from a field test investigating the potential risk from released droplets by infectious patients for helicopter crews….
At Volkel Air Force Base, we met Dr Geert-Jan van Geffen, anesthetist, trauma physician and Radboud UMC medical helicopter co-ordinator. Normally, he works onboard Lifeliner…
Researchers discuss whether aerosols from SARS-CoV-2 should be taken more into consideration, and that Covid-19 is not just transmitted by droplets.
Cologne, 24 June 2020 – With the gradual restarting of passenger air transport in the coming weeks, leaders from over a dozen air transport associations…
EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation to Veklury (remdesivir) for the treatment of COVID-19 in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age with pneumonia who require supplemental oxygen.
Levels of an antibody found in recovered COVID-19 patients fell sharply in 2-3 months after infection for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, according to a Chinese study.
A study from Bergen shows higher household secondary attack rate of Covid-19 than a Chinese study.
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.
In early February 2020, Yang et al. reported an alarming high mortality rate in patients with COVID-19-associated acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilatory support. Such…
The handheld ultrasound demonstrates clinical and economic value in combating COVID-19 based on interviews with frontline ultrasound physician and cardiologist as well as a national…
Lockdown measures may have averted 3.1 million deaths from covid-19 across 11 European countries, including 470 000 in the UK, a new modelling study indicates. However,…
Have you registered for our COVID-19 webinars yet? Tonight, our panelists take a look at the key changes in the COVID-19 Guidelines for Basic Life…
High-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) and non-invasive ventilation (NIV) have been used to manage early acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF) caused by COVID-19. As there is…
Frontline healthcare workers have faced huge challenge and psychological stress from the pandemic COVID-19 since December 2019. Most of Taiwan’s healthcare facility has reported “Zero”…
EMS professionals must be aware that COVID-19 does occur in children, perhaps more than is recognized. Read the article in JEMS here.
EMRS in Glasgow is cooperating with Search and rescue, and military aviation in the retrieval of confirmed or suspected Covid-patients that has to be moved by air.
Greece’s emergency strategy, including air ambulance services, testing and health infrastructure on the islands to address possible Covid-19 cases will be presented on Thursday, Health Minister Vassilis…
