Table 2 Mission details for air medical inter-hospital transferred patients under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Mission details | Daytime | Night-time | Total | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Numbers [n (%)] | 134 (69.8) | 57 (30.2) | 191 (100.0) | |
Mission classification [n (%)] | 0.109 | |||
Primary mission | 65 (50.8) | 35 (63.6) | 100 (54.6) | |
Secondary mission | 63 (49.2) | 20 (36.4) | 83 (45.4) | |
Missing | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
Mission times (min; median [Q1–Q3]) | ||||
Response time (n = 198) | 88.5 [52.7–137.0] | 83.0 [49.0–112.0] | 85.0 [51.0–135.0] | 0.389 |
Flight time | 18.5 [11.2–28.0] | 15 [11.0–22.0] | 17 [11.0–27.0] | 0.209 |
Handover time (n = 190) | 114.0 [72.3–152.8] | 112.5 [71.3–176.5] | 113.0 [72.0–164.5] | 0.534 |
Total mission time | 183.0 [147.0–248.7] | 182.0 [131.0–256.0] | 182.0 [143.0–253.5] | 0.958 |
Distance (km [range]) | 58.7 [33.7–75.5] | 45.7 [28.9–67.8] | 52.7 [33.2–71.1] | 0.265 |
Referral hospital [n (%)] | 0.374 | |||
Swiss hospital | 115 (85.8) | 46 (80.7) | 161 (84.3) | |
International hospital | 19 (14.2) | 11 (19.3) | 30 (15.7) | |
Destination hospital [n (%)] | 0.176 | |||
Swiss hospitals | 122 (91.1) | 47 (82.5) | 169 (88.5) | |
Zurich | 74 (55.2) | 34 (59.7) | 108 (56.6) | |
Bern | 15 (11.2) | 7 (12.3) | 22 (11.5) | |
Lausanne | 19 (14.2) | 2 (3.5) | 21 (11.0) | |
St. Gallen | 11 (8.2) | 2 (3.5) | 13 (6.8) | |
Geneva | 2 (1.5) | 2 (3.5) | 4 (2.1) | |
Basel | 1 (0.8) | – | 1 (0.5) | |
German hospitals | 12 (9.0) | 10 (17.5) | 22 (11.5) | |
Freiburg | 6 (4.5) | 8 (14.0) | 14 (7.3) | |
Tuebingen | 5 (3.7) | 2 (3.5) | 7 (3.7) | |
Heidelberg | 1 (0.7) | – | 1 (0.5) |