Research in Emergency Medical Transport

The AAMS Research Sub-Committee is always available to assist individual(s) in their research endeavors.  Please feel free to contact the sub-committee Chairman, MarkAlain Dery at madery@mac.com and he will put you in touch with the appropriate committee member based on your research topic.

RESOURCES

    Foundation for Air-Medical Research & Education
FARE funds research intiatives that support the charitable, educational and research purposes of AAMS' vision 'to assure that every person has access to quality air medical and critical care transport.'  Visit the FARE website for grant paperwork. 

Funding priority for 2008-2009 will be given to studies focused on the following research priorities:
1. National and International studies involving patient and aviation safety in air medical transport, examination of adverse events and incident data, and development of practical solutions to overcome identified deficiencies.
a.)  Operational safety
b.)  Clinical / patient care safety

2.  National and International studies relating to efficacious onboard patient management involving time sensitive care.

3.  National and International studies involving efficient utilization of transport and effects on reduction in mortality and morbidity, rehabilitation and cost or productivity of survival.

4.  National and International research involving the scope, responsiveness, and effectiveness of civil air medical transport in times of natural disaster and events prompting homeland security response.

  ADAMS Database 
The Atlas & Database of Air Medical Services (ADAMS) includes descriptive & geographic information on air medical service providers, their communication centers, base helipads, RW aircraft and receiving hospitals. The need for such a data resource is driven by newly-emerging Automatic Crash Notification (ACN) technologies which are changing both the content and the manner in which motor vehicle crash emergency messages are routed.  In addition, ADAMS has attracted interest from homeland security and disaster response agencies. 

  American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
   http://www.aast.org/
This site promotes the exchange of scientific information regarding all phases of the care of the trauma patient. This will include prevention activities, prehospital care, resuscitation, operative care, critical care, rehabilitation and trauma system design.

  COMCARE
   http://www.comcare.org/
COMCARE is a non-profit national advocacy organization of over 100 members, all dedicated to advancing emergency communications. As an organization, our goal is to create an environment of borderless, geographically targeted information sharing to achieve the most advanced response to emergencies.

  MEDLINE®
   http://medline.cos.com/
The world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information, with nearly eleven million records.

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
   http://www.nhtsa.gov/ 
Since 1976, NCSA has provided the data and the analysis to allow complete understanding of the nature, causes and injury outcomes of crashes and the strategies and interventions that will reduce crashes and their consequences.

  PubMed
   http://www.pubmed.gov/
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.