Trauma patients more likely to survive if rescued by helicopter Emergency medical helicopters are certainly dramatic (especially on TV shows like "ER" and "Grey's Anatomy"), but are they really so much better than ambulances that they're worth the extra cost? A new study says the answer is yes.
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine culled data from the National Trauma Data Bank on 61,909 patients who were transported to a hospital via helicopter... read more