Background: The decision whether to immediately evacuate an international traveler who has become ill is a challenge for physicians of aeromedical evacuation companies. The aim of this study is to characterize international aeromedical evacuations in order to identify predictive factors that indicate urgent evacuation.
Methods: The records from all consecutive aeromedical evacuations and overseas repatriations carried out by Mondial Assistance France between August 2006 and July 2007 were reviewed for this study.