Advanced medical life support procedures in vitally compromised children by a helicopter emergency medical service

Table 1 NACA Score

Score level	Patient status	Necessary intervention
I	Slight injury or illness	No medical intervention
II	Moderately heavy injury or illness	Ambulatory medical treatment
III	Heavy, but not life threatening injury or illness	Stationary medical treatment
IV	Heavy injury or illness, life threat cannot be excluded	Emergency medical measures
V	Acute mortal danger	Emergency medical measures
VI	Acute cardiac or respiratory arrest	Emergency resuscitation
VII	Death

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) developed a simple scoring system for patients receiving air transport during the Vietnam War.²

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