Wisconsin Med Flight Crash.

[Bjorn, Pret]

The hard truth is that some air medical programs are demonstrably more
beneficial and less risky than others.  

Being that none of us seems to know much about the Wisconsin program,
much less this mission, I urge restraint and respect in the near term.
Three good men just died; asserting at this point that their lives were
wasted is premature and baseless.

For now, let's honor our colleagues and mourn their loss.

Pret Bjorn, RN
Bangor, ME USA 


-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Rangraj Setlur
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 12:11 PM
To: Trauma &amp, Critical Care mailing list
Subject: Re: Wisconsin Med Flight Crash.


Terrible news. My colleague Roy Danks was very eloquent on the
uselessness
of air evacuation in most situations. This seems to be the second such
event
in a fairly brief interval. Will this lead to a reconsideration of the
risk/benefit of air evacuations?
rangraj

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Restuccia, Marc <RestuccM at ummhc.org>
wrote:

> The thoughts and prayers of all of us here at UMass likewise go out to
> the families and colleagues of ours in Wisconsin.
>
> Marc
> Marc C. Restuccia
> Medical Director
> Life Flight/MDAccess/Worcester EMS
> 508-421-1468
> restuccm at ummhc.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
> [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Alan Oconnor
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 6:30 PM
> To: trauma-list at trauma.org
> Subject: Re: Wisconsin Med Flight Crash.
>
> Our deepest sympathy and all our prayers go out to the families and
> friends of all who died.
> Alan
>
> Dr Alan O'Connor
> Director of Emergency Medicine
> Logan Hospital
> Loganlea Road
> Meadowbrook
> Qld 4231
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> Phone (07) 32998599
> Fax     (07) 32998992
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> >>> "McSwain, Norman E Jr." <nmcswai at tulane.edu> 12/05/2008 4:44 am
>>>
> I forwarded this to the PHTLS folks. Their friends and families have
my
> thoughts and prayers and from the PHTLS family Typed by the thumbs of
> Norman on his BlackBerry
>
> Norman McSwain, MD
> Tulane Univ Surgery
> 504 988-5111
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> Sent: Sun May 11 11:02:04 2008
> Subject: Wisconsin Med Flight Crash.
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> Thought some of you might want to know about this one.
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>  MADISON, Wis. - Three people died when a University of Wisconsin
> Hospital Med Flight helicopter crashed after taking off Saturday night
> from La Crosse, a hospital spokesman said Sunday.A surgeon, a nurse
and
> the pilot were killed in the crash, which took place as the helicopter
> was returning to Madison from the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center,
> said Aaron Conklin.A hospital spokeswoman, Lisa Brunette, said earlier
> that the craft took off about 10:30 p.m.There is one other Med Flight
> helicopter that serves university hospital system and it has been
> grounded, Conklin said.The families of the victims have been notified,
> but the names were not immediately released.
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Lt Col Rangraj Setlur
Associate Professor
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care
Armed Forces Medical College
Pune
India
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