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Sun Mar 1 22:23:04 GMT 2009

I believe that the team out of Clarian Health (in Indianapolis....Lifeline
is the callsign for the helicopter) will return to Indianapolis via ground
ambulance with a patient if the weather closes up and prevents safe flight.
  However, they only operate with a flight nurse and a flight paramedic and
occasionally (?) a resident.   However, I have no first hand knowledge of
how correct this is.  It is simply what I was told by a flight paramedic for
them several years back.  I know the children's hospital operated by Clarian
(Riley) has a very well staffed and well equiped ground transport ambulance
for handling pediatric CC transfers as well.

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:08 PM, laurence rowland <
laurencerowland at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> We send our sickest patients 110km by helicopter. The aircraft has to come
> from the receiving centre, after a little negotiation.
>
> Probably, it would be faster to send the patient by road. However, a useful
> specialist team comes with the aircraft.
>
> With the limited space in the helicopter and the difficulties of working in
> flight, my suspicion is that the safest option for many patients may be to
> bring the team by air then send all back to the receiving centre by road. I
> have never seen this done.
>
> Regards, Laurence.
>
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