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Evacuation from a military base via physician-staffed helicopters
  1. Hiromichi Ohsaka,
  2. K-I Muramatsu,
  3. W Fujita,
  4. K Jitsuiki,
  5. K Ishikawa and
  6. Y Yanagawa
  1. Acute Critical Care Medicine, Juntendo Daigaku Igakubu Fuzoku Shizuoka Byoin, Izunokuni, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Y Yanagawa, Department of Acute Critical Care Medicine, Shizuoka Hospital, Juntendo University, Izunokuni 1129, Shizuoka, Japan; yyanaga{at}juntendo.ac.jp

https://doi.org/10.1136/military-2023-002443

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    A tourist bus, which had 1 driver, 1 attendant and 34 passengers, overturned on a road in the town of Oyama in Eastern Shizuoka Prefecture on 13 October 2022, where Gotemba Fire Department (GFD) had jurisdiction. The accident happened due to brake fade phenomenon on the outbound lane from Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain (3776 m) in Japan. Around 11:50 hours, police received an emergency call and then informed the GFD. The GFD ordered the dispatch of one command party, six ambulances, two rescue parties, two firefighter parties and five multipurpose cars. The GFD then requested the dispatch of the Eastern Shizuoka doctor helicopter (DH, a physician-staffed helicopter). The Eastern Shizuoka DH carried three doctors and two nurses with blood type O red blood cells prepared. The GFD set the rendezvous point at Japan Self-Defense Forces …

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    • Contributors All authors have made substantive contributions to the study, and all authors approve the data and conclusions.

    • Funding This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Special Research in Subsidies for ordinary expenses of private schools from The Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan.

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