Annotated Bibliography of Safety Literature
To mitigate risk, define root causes, and improve patient safety in the transport medicine setting, it is necessary to understand the relevant medical and non-medical literature related to transport safety. Formatted in an excel spreadsheet, the annotated bibliography will serve as a key resource and reference repository for everyone in the transport medicine community. The document contains a thorough and extensive review of the safety literature related to the following domains:
- Ground critical care ambulance transport
- Helicopter medical transport
- Fixed wing medical transport
- Human factor errors associated with medical transport
- Medical errors and complications associated with medical transport
- Safety culture and safety management systems
The literature review contains results and conclusions for 167 medical transport safety research studies. Click here for the background information on the research project.
AAMS Vision Zero Safety Day Handbook 
A document designed to help educate transport programs about the planning, financing and implementation of a safety education day. Safety Days are likely to be a significant part of your program’s Safety Management System (SMS).
Air Medical Accident/Incident Preparation, Response and Recovery: Lessons from Crash Survivors
This document features insights of the Survivors Network, survivors of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) accidents. This resource document aids in industry risk mitigation, accident/incident preparedness, response, and long-term individual and program recovery. While there is no doubt there is great work being done in the air medical industry around the world and there have been significant strides in risk mitigation, incidents and accidents continue to occur. To date there have been 358 crewmembers killed in air medical accidents, but there are over 600 survivors of accidents in HEMS alone since the early 1970s. This document will assist HEMS programs to incorporate survivors into their current Post Accident Incident Plan (PAIP).
