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Mon Oct 13 15:37:54 BST 2008

Ken
This a major problem and now is the time to address this problem. It would be great if you could change some things for the LV trauma meeting to discuss this problem with meaningful outcome
Norman
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Norman McSwain, MD
Tulane Univ Surgery
504 988-5111

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Very much so.  In years past, I dated a girl from Stavanger, Norway whose
uncle flew helicopters for one of the services in southern Norway (the name
escapes me).  Over drinks one night, we got on the subject of how "flaky"
the oversight of helicopter operations in the US happens to be for medical
flights.  If a meeting becomes likely, I would encourage those organizing it
to include the input of international services with outstanding safety
records and approaches to keeping it that way.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Coats Tim - Professor of Emergency Medicine
<Tim.Coats at uhl-tr.nhs.uk> wrote:

> As a UK emergency physician currently travelling to Sweden for an em
> conference I was interested in the comments on international comparisons of
> HEMS systems. Such comparisons can be useful, however we must bear in mind
> that the context in which medical helicopters operate and the objectives
> that they are designed to achieve may be very different between countries.
> The Scandinavian systems seem to be characterised by national organisation,
> close medical control, good clinical governance and case review, high level
> training, national safety standards and a rather military approach to risk
> evaluation and task achievement.
> It seems like a system that we in the UK (and maybe also the USA) could
> learn from.
> Tim Coats
> --------------------------
> Prof TJ Coats
> Professor of Emergency Medicine
> Leicester University
>
>
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