This article aims to identify the nursing care required to build a treatment protocol based on the Prehospital Trauma Life Support principles for adult trauma patients, aero removed, specifically during and post-flight periods. This study is based on convergent-care qualitative research conducted in the Air Operations Division in San Jose, Santa Catarina, Brazil, from April to June, 2010. Individual interviews and group meetings with eight nurses who work in the service were used to construct the protocol. The protocol provides for in-flight safety rules, constant patient evaluation during removal and his/her delivery to their on-ground care destination. The protocol provides safer practical care for aero removed patients. We suggest further study to focus on nursing performance, such as the creation of new protocols that direct aerospace environment nursing care.
Air ambulances; Aerospace medicine; Emergency Nursing; Nursing care; Wounds and injuries