A great service which will be very useful in the region, however while the medical personnel aboard will be suitably skilled, they won't be at the level normally seen in this type of service elsewhere.
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Over 100 missions in 2 months
They have access to a 2nd hell for maintenance cover
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Air Corps 112 The Emergency Aeromedical Service
"The Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) is a helicopter-based medical evacuation and air ambulance service based in Athlone, Ireland. Operated since 2012 by the Air Corps and National Ambulance Service under the call sign MEDEVAC 112, the service was redesignated AIR CORPS 112 in 2016. It is a joint project of the Irish government Departments of Defence and Health, and provides an advanced-paramedic response to patients whose location or clinical condition requires aeromedical support."
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It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
It was a new age...It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
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Another way of looking at this is, that's what you get when you force another role on an already stretched military air wing.
In most other places, these assets are operated independently.
Gasu and air ambulance should never be a primary military task. But our government decide it's cheaper to leave the underfunded and understaffed Air Corps to do both.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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The annual costs of the Cork based service are being quoted as €2 million. Surely that is something that could be provided to a Midlands based private service. This is not and never has been a military role, especially one with limited personnel and equipment.
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Quick question: One of my pet ideas is to use air ambulances for transfers between hospitals. Let me explain the rationale
- aer ambulance can not always land due to roadside over head electricity cables
- hospital functions are being very centralised in this country
I would like us to be able to quickly transfer patients from one hospital to the other and have a helipad at _every_ hospital. Now I am wondering whether anything relevant would be gained by making those helipads IFR capable? (never mind practicality, that's a diffrent conversation.) Planning laws of course would have to be changed so that noise concerns do not apply for emergency services.
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Originally posted by Graylion View PostQuick question: One of my pet ideas is to use air ambulances for transfers between hospitals. Let me explain the rationale
- aer ambulance can not always land due to roadside over head electricity cables
- hospital functions are being very centralised in this country
I would like us to be able to quickly transfer patients from one hospital to the other and have a helipad at _every_ hospital. Now I am wondering whether anything relevant would be gained by making those helipads IFR capable? (never mind practicality, that's a diffrent conversation.) Planning laws of course would have to be changed so that noise concerns do not apply for emergency services.
While there are certain classes of patients who one might need to get to a tertiary centre ASAP, and there are even circumstances when getting a stable patient to another hospital ASAP would be benticial (eg if an ITU bed is not available), the vast majority of inter-hospital transfers would not need the resource-heavy investment of Air Ambulance to get them from A to B.
If they are fit enough to lie on a trolley in A&E, they are fit enough to lie on a stretcher for an hour or two to transfer.
The investment might be better put into more boring but essential areas.'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by Flamingo View PostWhat sort of patients are you thinking of sending by air?
While there are certain classes of patients who one might need to get to a tertiary centre ASAP, and there are even circumstances when getting a stable patient to another hospital ASAP would be benticial (eg if an ITU bed is not available), the vast majority of inter-hospital transfers would not need the resource-heavy investment of Air Ambulance to get them from A to B.
If they are fit enough to lie on a trolley in A&E, they are fit enough to lie on a stretcher for an hour or two to transfer.
The investment might be better put into more boring but essential areas.
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As a layman can someone please explane the difference between a bed and a trolley.
The only difference I can come up with is that a bed has a Curtain around it and is not in a corridor.It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
It was a new age...It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
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Originally posted by Graylion View PostQuick question: One of my pet ideas is to use air ambulances for transfers between hospitals. Let me explain the rationale
- aer ambulance can not always land due to roadside over head electricity cables
- hospital functions are being very centralised in this country
I would like us to be able to quickly transfer patients from one hospital to the other and have a helipad at _every_ hospital. Now I am wondering whether anything relevant would be gained by making those helipads IFR capable? (never mind practicality, that's a diffrent conversation.) Planning laws of course would have to be changed so that noise concerns do not apply for emergency services.
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Originally posted by CTU View PostAs a layman can someone please explane the difference between a bed and a trolley.
The only difference I can come up with is that a bed has a Curtain around it and is not in a corridor.
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