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Epidemiology and Severity of Medical Events for Mountain Bikers and Hikers Transported by Ambulance in Western Australia, 2015 to 2020.

Paul John BraybrookHideo TohiraDeon BrinkJudith FinnPeter L Buzzacott
Published in: Wilderness & environmental medicine (2024)
Both mountain bikers and hikers experienced incidents requiring ambulance transport to hospital. Incidents of a medical etiology had a higher clinical risk, as determined by the NEWS2 scores, regardless of activity being undertaken.
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