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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 |
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 |
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