Role of pilot instrument-proficiency in the safety of helicopter emergency medical services

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 972-975

  Wuerz, Richard C ^a   O'Neal, Rick ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air ambulances; Crash risk; Emergency medical services; Flight simulator; Helicopter; Safety; Transportation of patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE PILOT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY;

EID: 0030768326     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03661.x     Document Type: Article

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