Keywords
helicopter
encephalocranial trauma
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Abstract
In the last decades, the helicopter emergency medical services have been intensely developed, and its use in the civilian population has grown exponentially, especially in the population of critically ill patients, and in rural areas. The group of patients affected with traumatic brain injury highly benefits from this form of transportation, since it can reduce the time from the trauma to the specialized center, allowing the application of diagnostic and therapeutic measures that have demonstrated to lower mortality. This review focuses on the helicopter transportation of patients with traumatic brain injury, to determine whether this way of transportation contributes to lower the mortality rate of this group of patients.
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