Table 5 Quality assurance and quality improvement
Location | Organization | Quality assurance/quality improvement |
|---|---|---|
Australia | Air Ambulance Victoria | Safer Care Victoria, multiple state and national registries, equipment standardization, routine use of checklists, and monthly clinical governance days including case reviews and various audits |
Australia | Greater Sydney Area HEMS | Anesthesia (rapid sequence induction [RSI]), transfusion and ultrasound audits, clinical excellence commission, equipment standardization, routine use of checklists, and physician follow-up for all transported patients |
Australia | Retrieval Services Queensland | Quality management system, clinical incident management system, various monthly clinical audits, and equipment standardization |
Australia | RFDS Queensland | Mandatory reporting and review of “high-interest events” withing 24 h, quality assurance committee reporting to Queensland Health, bimonthly case reviews, and state-wide aeromedical meeting |
Canada | BCEHS | Airway registry |
Canada | EHS LifeFlight | Airway registry and transfusion audits |
Canada | Ornge | Anesthesia (RSI), CCT and transfusion audits, and equipment standardization |
Canada | STARS | Review of all ePCRs by either the base physician or senior clinician; airway and transfusion audits, and equipment standardization |
Finland | FinnHEMS | FinnHEMS database was established to record detailed information on all HEMS missions in the country |
New Zealand | Northern Helicopter Rescue | Ground Air Medical qUality Transport (GAMUT) quality improvement collaborative, and anesthesia (RSI), transfusion, and ultrasound audits |
Norway | Norwegian Air Ambulance | Anesthesia (RSI), CCT and transfusion audits |
Wales | EMRTS Cymru | Anesthesia (RSI and procedural sedation), CCT and transfusion audits, equipment standardization, and routine use of checklists |