Head-on Crash US 42 - Triple Life Flight

[Janipootn]

I have been life-flighted to Vanderbilt in Nov. 2000, thats what I was told. I don't remember any of it because of injury's. I have signed do not resuscitate papers before but these people was doing a very caring job. I'm sure my family is happy I was saved. I cried watching this one, witch is a first.

[supreme21]

great video

[CBJRproductions]

whats the song? Nickelback - ?????

[sparxter971]

Far Away

[mitchel8gg]

its funny how cars breakdown so fast but when u drive it it feels like steel

[Dejablue630]

Lucky bastards. =]

[FrozenEMT]

Not all patients that are "dusted off" are flown out because they are "critical." There are a number of factors like distance and time by ground to a emergency facility, time eaten up during extrication of the patient from the vehicle, etc. One thing I have learned is that we try not to say ALL patients or ALWAYS flown, etc. Even with critical patients, sometimes an air evac simply is not possible.

[ohio64thffemt]

The helicopter that shut down was Lifeflight. We use medflight and lifeflight. Lifeflight shuts down becasue unlike Medflight there helicopters have a short cold take off time. So they error on the side of caution and shut down. HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH NON CRITICAL PT's WOULD NOT BE FLYING THEM. There is a hospital 4 miles down the road from there. They needed flown.

[nathan6190]

they only keep the engines running if its a bad emergency. but if the person is not in critical condition they will shut the motors down.

[wyo7011]

Any pt who needs flight is in critical condition.

[HeloBeagle]

we keep the a/c spinning on ALL scene jobs, unless safety dictates otherwise. that's not a pretty LZ, but i don't know why he shut down.

[hopkinsff23]

my firedepartment does hot loads on sever sever head injurys when lifeflight is used

[cooljohnrm]

Some aircraft have a very low rotor arc, or clearance, so they need to "cold load" patients onto their aircraft. Others have plenty of clearance and they do not need to shut down the rotor. If the rotors remain on, they would need to have someone watching the tail so that somebody doesn't walk in to the tail. Also depends on the company policy. My company hot loads most patients unless we are going to be on scene for long.

[Jennifer53086]

WHen my dad was life flighted to ORMC they never stopped the engine,but his neck was broken so

[ASSEMblerEX]

Good thing he stopped the rotors in that downhill landing angle.. Not pretty when people walk into rotors.

[sparxter971]

They always stop the rotors. I haven't been to a med flight scene where they "keep the engine running".

[andreSPHS]

some crews have different preferences, some like to hotload and some don't (browse around ems chopper videos, you'll find plenty of hotloads)

[GeddyBre]

So do military Med'evacs... whole different mission tho.