EMS management/crush injury

[pjcabdds at mchsi.com]

Sorry, I just missed the point. You are correct about the lack of coordination. I could call at least four 
helicopters from both sides of the Mississippi. There is no communication. I prefer Iowa, but the Air 
Evac one is only 10 minutes away. You would think that there should be some communication within 
the system. I am going to ask the question at the state level!

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Kind regards,
Phil
Phil Caropreso, MD, FACS
1813 Grand Avenue
Keokuk, Iowa, USA, 52632
pjcabdds at mchsi.com


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    Krin135 at aol.com
To:      trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Re: EMS management/crush injury
Date:    Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:05:36 +0000

>  
> 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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