Motohiro Tsuboi, Manabu Hibiya, Hiroyuki Kawaura, Nozomu Seki, Kazuki Hasegawa, Tatsuhiko Hayashi, Kentaro Matsuo, Shintaro Furuya, Yukiko Nakajima, Suguru Hitomi, Kaoru Ogawa, Hajime Suzuki, Daisuke Yamamoto, Masahiro Asami, Saki Sakamoto, Jiro Kamiyama, Yuko Okuda, Kazu Minami, Katsunobu Teshigahara, Masashi Gokita, Koichi Yasaka, Shigemasa Taguchi, Kazuya Kiyota
PURPOSE: In Japan, the vehicle used in pre-hospital trauma care systems with physician-staffed ground emergency medical services (GEMS) is referred to as a "doctor car". Doctor cars are highly mobile physician-staffed GEMS that can provide complex pre-hospital trauma management using various treatment strategies. The number of doctor car operations for patients with severe trauma has increased. Considering facility factors, the association between doctor cars and patient outcomes remains unclear...
November 24, 2023: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery: Official Publication of the European Trauma Society