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Rural Emergency Medicine    at Skyaid     updated 10/12/02

"Emergency Medical Care in Rural America"
Annals of Emergency Medicine, Sept 2001 added 1/02/02
25% of US population (71.5 million) lives in rural areas - which is 3.5 million square miles = 96.9% of the US land area.

"Urban-Rural Differences in Prehospital Care of Major Trauma"  added 1/02/02
Journal of Trauma Vol. 42 #4 1997 page 723-729
"Rural victims were over seven times more likely to die before arrival if EMS response time was longer than 30 minutes"
"84% of the urban victims had a response time of under 10 minutes, compared with 43% of rural victims."

Rural Medicine 4 abstracts  added 12/31/01

Rural EMS - EMS Directors organization look at costs of vehicles, etc.   June 2000   added 11/03/01

EMS is slower in the suburbs - where 40% of US now live.  added 11/01/01

Emergency Medicine in Rural America  highlights of notes by Henry Lahore: the 25% of US population in rural areas get poor emergency medical care.   added 10/14/01

Rural EMS links web site  same site has links on U.S. Rural Demographics added 11/14/01

Rural EMS bibliography  added 10/14/01

Rural roads deadlier than urban highways    added 8/16/01

Of the 17 million annual auto crashes, less than a quarter occur on rural stretches of the nation's 4 million miles of roadways.  But these isolated accidents account for nearly 60% of the fatalities. ''Trying to find out which 250,000 people out of the 5 million car crashes are at risk of dying is like finding a needle in a haystack,'' says Howard Champion, who worked as a trauma surgeon for 30 years before becoming a crash researcher. ''Most people who die early die from bleeding to death. You've got a window of opportunity there that is quite limited.''    from a USA Today article     added 4/29/01

Approximately 2X death rate for rural motor vehicles accidents   added 12/17/00
Skyaid Watch and Skyaid would reduce rural motor vehicle deaths by:
   1)  Eliminate crash discovery time
   2)  Eliminate delay to notify EMS system
   3)  Greatly reduce response and transport times
   4)  Transport victim to regional trauma center

Higher automotive death rate in non-metro and rural regions  added 12/06/00

US Maps of Rural regions, Death rates, Auto deaths, Critical Care Hospitals, etc.  added 06/24/01

Rural Medics web site is interesting and has a sense of humor  
"We don't have a golden hour, we have a golden day. 
   Our platinum 10 minutes is an agonizing 1-3 hours. 
     We don't record patient contact time in minutes, we use hours and days, 
          and we wear a calendar on our wrist"   added 1/06/01