med copters collide

[Timothy Craig Hardcastle]

Bill

Excuse my ignorance, but are there not established position statements
by various regulatory bodies in the States - we use those to determine
who to fly for in South Africa? Our system is fortunately mostly a
government funded one and the limiting factor is if there is money to
fuel the flight rather than someone else to call. We often don't have a
needed chopper, rather than the other way round.

Tim
Dr Timothy C Hardcastle
M.B., Ch.B. (Stell); M. Med (Chir) (Stell); FCS (SA)
Principal Surgeon-Lecturer / Sub-specialist: Trauma and Critical Care
Deputy director: Trauma Unit and Trauma ICU
Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital / UKZN
800 Bellair Road
Mayville, Durban
 
Postal: PostNet Suite 27
Private Bag X05
Malvern, 4055
KwaZulu Natal
 
timothyhar at ialch.co.za 
 

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[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of William Bromberg
Sent: 01 July 2008 20:31
To: Trauma & Critical Care mailing list
Subject: Re: med copters collide

Problem here is that there is no medical intervention in the launch
decision - it's based on "protocols" that basically fall under the
"you call we haul" category. There is not enough medical consensus out
in the literature (AFAICT) to force a change when the helicopter "needs"
a certain number of flights to cover its overhead. 

Bill Bromberg

>>> "Andrew J Bowman" <andrewj.bowman at gmail.com> 7/1/2008 2:10 PM >>>
So, start refusing calls. There is no law (I do not think) that says
you 
have to take every flight especially if the facts presented do not
warrant 
air transport.

Andrew



 I'm sick
> of my flight crew being called out in all kinds of weather for
> uninjured, intoxicated patients. For times when the ground crew is
about
> to go off shift and don't want to drive the hour round trip. For a
dog
> bite to the foot. And it goes on and on and on.

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