EMS management/crush injury

[Krin135 at aol.com]

In a message dated 13-Jun-07 12:56:23 Central Daylight Time,  
pjcabdds at mchsi.com writes:

CK,
Unless there has been a change since last fall, at least in  Iowa, there is a 
central dispatch for Air Evac in West Plains, MO. I was  there and I 
witnessed 
its operation. This dispatch is only for Air Evac  and for no one else.


Phil:
 
AirEvac Life Team does have a separate 800 number that dispatches their  
birds...the point I was making was that it's only ONE of four players in the  
state...and no coordination between them.
 
Another point is that the other three players generally only go out of  state 
for Neonatal and occasionally PICU transfers, more rarely for trauma.  
LifeTeam is in enough border areas that they overlap quite a bit into Iowa,  
Illinois, Arkansas and Kansas, and even some into Kentucky and Tennessee.
 
ck
Charles S. Krin, DO FAAFP



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