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ArticleTitle International Airport and Emergency Medical Care

AuthorList Toshiro Makino¹, Yoshihiro Asano¹, Kitoshi Takuhiro², Yuichi Koido³, Kunihiro Mashiko², Yasuhiro Yamamoto³, Yoko Maeda², Chitoshi Shimazaki² and Kiyohiko Yamashita²

Affiliation ¹Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic, ²Chiba Hokuso Hospital, Nippon Medical School, ³Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School

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Volume 69

Issue 2

Year 2002

Page 185-191

Received August 9, 2001

Accepted December 5, 2001

Keywords international airports, Narita Airport, emergency medical system, air travel, pulmonary thromboembolism

Abstract The Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic (Airport Clinic) was opened in 1992 as Japan's first 24-hour international airport clinic. To date, it has provided medical services to a total of 117, 953 patients. Of these, 85, 545 (72.5%) were airport employees, 28, 662 (24.3%) were passengers, and 3, 746 (3.2%) were others. Of the total, non-Japanese patients accounted for 8, 485 (7.2%). In the year to March 31, 2001, the Clinic treated an average of 43.9 cases per day.
The number of emergency patients was 2, 969 or 2.3% of the total, of whom 500 (0.4%) were non-Japanese. There were 47 deaths, with age ranging from 14 to 84 (average age 64.0). The ratio of males to females who died was 28: 19. Of the 47 deaths, 18 were non-Japanese. Pulmonary thromboembolism is considered to have played a role in 25 of the deaths.
Based on more than 8 years of airport clinical experience, we believe that a first-class international airport should have excellent medical facilities that can provide quality emergency medical services to travelers and disaster victims.

Correspondence to Toshiro Makino, Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic, 1-1 Azafurugome, Furugome Narita-shi, Chiba 282-0004, Japan

ArticleTitle	International Airport and Emergency Medical Care
AuthorList	Toshiro Makino¹, Yoshihiro Asano¹, Kitoshi Takuhiro², Yuichi Koido³, Kunihiro Mashiko², Yasuhiro Yamamoto³, Yoko Maeda², Chitoshi Shimazaki² and Kiyohiko Yamashita²
Affiliation	¹Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic, ²Chiba Hokuso Hospital, Nippon Medical School, ³Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School
Language	EN
Volume	69
Issue	2
Year	2002
Page	185-191
Received	August 9, 2001
Accepted	December 5, 2001
Keywords	international airports, Narita Airport, emergency medical system, air travel, pulmonary thromboembolism
Abstract	The Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic (Airport Clinic) was opened in 1992 as Japan's first 24-hour international airport clinic. To date, it has provided medical services to a total of 117, 953 patients. Of these, 85, 545 (72.5%) were airport employees, 28, 662 (24.3%) were passengers, and 3, 746 (3.2%) were others. Of the total, non-Japanese patients accounted for 8, 485 (7.2%). In the year to March 31, 2001, the Clinic treated an average of 43.9 cases per day. The number of emergency patients was 2, 969 or 2.3% of the total, of whom 500 (0.4%) were non-Japanese. There were 47 deaths, with age ranging from 14 to 84 (average age 64.0). The ratio of males to females who died was 28: 19. Of the 47 deaths, 18 were non-Japanese. Pulmonary thromboembolism is considered to have played a role in 25 of the deaths. Based on more than 8 years of airport clinical experience, we believe that a first-class international airport should have excellent medical facilities that can provide quality emergency medical services to travelers and disaster victims.
Correspondence to	Toshiro Makino, Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic, 1-1 Azafurugome, Furugome Narita-shi, Chiba 282-0004, Japan