• Ambulance helicopter contribution to air based search and rescue in North Norway during 2000-2010 

      Glomseth, Ragnar (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-06-01)
      Background: Search and rescue (SAR) operations constitute a small but important proportion of the Norwegian ambulance helicopter services’ workload. There is no common database for all SAR helicopter operations, because several different resources contribute to the operations, and there is no common definition of SAR in use among different services. Methods: We performed a manual search through ...
    • Ambulance helicopter contribution to search and rescue in North Norway 

      Glomseth, Ragnar; Gulbrandsen, Fritz I.; Fredriksen, Knut (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-09-13)
      Background: Search and rescue (SAR) operations constitute a significant proportion of Norwegian ambulance helicopter missions, and they may limit the service’s capacity for medical operations. We compared the relative contribution of the different helicopter resources using a common definition of SAR-operation in order to investigate how the SAR workload had changed over the last years. Methods: We ...