gregg1r
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The hospital Trauma team is using the police departments/fire department for initial alert.
After that, whatever frequency that the para medics use to request medical guidance from the trauma team. They provide updates from the copter pilot on ETA.
I've done clinical studies at the R Adams Crowley Shock Trauma in Baltimore. All of the communications were handled via the para medics. The head trauma nurse was a woman named Carmen.
If you monitor the FAA flight frequency for the Baltimore area, the MSP helicopter crews were call signed Medivac 1-6, but that was just between the helicopter and the BWI airport control tower. Once they did the scoop and run, they notified the tower there was one inbound. Once in the area, they communicated with the city helicopter crew known as Foxtrot.
On the 7th floor of Shock Trauma, (the roof was the 8th) the trauma nurses/doctors followed the flight inbound via the paramedics. Shock Trauma was in the middle of Baltimore City, 4 blocks west of the Inner Harbor.
Maryland charged a surcharge on vehicle license plates per year for medivac services, all of which were handled by the Maryland State Police, no private companies involved. The legislature tried a few times to hand off emergency helicopter services to private companies, but ran into issues how they were going to get paid. |
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