The helicopter as a caring context: Experiences of people suffering trauma

Suffering a trauma results in a sudden change to one ’s everyday life and, initially, not knowing the extent of one’s injuries (O’Brien and Fothergill-Bourbonnais, 2004). Injury due to trauma may require emergency medical services (EMS) to assist in transferring the victim from the pre-hospital location to a hospital, as he or she may require sp ecialist care and specific medical technology (Gupta and Rao, 2003). EMS-assisted transfers are done mostly with help from ground ambulances (SweTrau, 2015), but centralization of highly specialized care is expected to increase the need for airborne transport (Sweden’s municipalities and county co uncils, 2012).
Source: International Emergency Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Case study Source Type: research