Descriptive Analysis of Cardiac Patients Transported by Critical Care Air Transport Teams.

CONCLUSIONS: Critically ill cardiac patients make up a significant portion of patients transported out of the combat theater. These patients are older, overweight and have identified risk factors for cardiac morbidity. More strenuous pre-deployment screening for risk factors and prevention strategies could minimize the use of military resources to evacuate these patients from the combat theater. PMID: 30811531 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30811531?dopt=Abstract

Source: Military Medicine - March 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research