Inter-Hospital Medical Evacuation of Victims of Road Accidents on the Federal Highway M-8 "Kholmogory" in the Arkhangelsk Region

• Published in: Disaster Medicine
• Main Author: Baranov, A.V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, All-Russian Centre for Disaster Medicine «Zashchita» 2020
• Subjects: Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid; RC86-88.9; Kholmogory; Arkhangelsk
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.33266/2070-1004-2020-4-66-69; https://doaj.org/article/08dff4e8f0c34061ab6ff17176987b3d

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the inter-hospital medical evacuation of victims of road accidents on the Federal highway M-8 "Kholmogory" in the Arkhangelsk region to determine ways of further improvement. Materials and methods of research: a retrospective study is carried out of 112 medical records of victims of accidents on the FAD M-8 "Kholmogory" in the Arkhangelsk region, evacuated for urgent reasons in the period from 01.01.2012 to 31.12.2018 from the Central district hospitals (CRH) to the Arkhangelsk regional clinical hospital – trauma center level I. Research results and their analysis. There was an increase in the number of cases of inter-hospital medical evacuation of victims of accidents on the FAD M-8 "Kholmogory", especially its sanitary aviation component-by 2018; all evacuees had severe polytrauma, the vast majority of them were evacuated from the CRH to the level I trauma center within the first day. The need is substantiated to equip a helipad, purchase a helicopter, create full-fledged emergency response teams, and organize routing of victims of accidents on the FAD M-8 Kholmogory in the Shenkursky and Velsky districts of the Arkhangelsk region to the Velsky CRH-level II trauma center.