Air Medical Transport
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The history of air medical transport (AMT) dates to before World War I, when the French evacuated soldiers from Serbia using airplanes as ambulances as early as 1915. The first recorded use of a U.S. military air ambulance was in 1918 when an airplane was converted to accommodate a litter patient in the rear cockpit. During World War II, more than 1.1 million sick and wounded soldiers were airlifted to the United States during the last 3 years of the war. The Korean War introduced the helicopter to AMT, and more than 20,000 battlefield medical evacuations were flown during the conflict. During the Vietnam War, Operation Dustoff transported nearly 1 million of the injured from the front lines to care. The impact of AMT on the wounded soldier was clear. During World War II, the average time from injury to definitive care was 6 to 12 hours, with a mortality rate of 5.8%. In Korea, the time was 2 to 4 hours, with 2.4% mortality. In Vietnam, the time was 65 minutes, and mortality was less than 1%. Encouraged by the military experience, civilian AMT in the United States was propelled by the 1969 start of the first hospital-sponsored, fixed-wing air medical program. The first civilian helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) program in the United States was established in 1972.
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