Medical issues associated with commercial flights
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Outcomes of medical emergencies on commercial airline flights.
BACKGROUND Worldwide, 2.75 billion passengers fly on commercial airlines annually. When in-flight medical emergencies occur, access to care is limited. We describe in-flight medical emergencies and the outcomes of these events. METHODS We reviewed records of in-flight medical emergency calls from five domestic and international airlines to a physician-directed medical communications center fr...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(09)60209-9