2016 Participants
Phillipa Goode
The PHANTOM project involved collecting information about patients with serious physical injury brought to the RVI Major Trauma Centre between 8 AM and 10 PM in 2014 by either the Great North Air Ambulance service (GNAAS) or North East Ambulance Service. These cases were chosen using criteria which looked at how severe the patient’s injuries were using a verified trauma database. I calculated how many patients received critical care interventions (e.g. sedation and ventilation) pre-hospital, which can only be provided by GNAAS, and how many patients received this care once they reached the Emergency Department. It also made it possible for me to calculate the sensitivity (the percentage of positives correctly identified) and specificity (the percentage of negatives correctly identified) for GNAAS tasking (case allocation). This is being taken forward by the service to improve tasking to maximise the potential for better patient outcomes.
Funding source: Newcastle University
Supervisor: Dr John Wright