From gary at ams.org.za Thu May 8 06:21:02 2008 From: gary at ams.org.za (Gary) Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:21:02 +0200 Subject: IV pumps - Attn Laura Criddle In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <005001c8b0f5$39bec9a0$ad3c5ce0$@org.za> Hi, just came across your email now, We have used the Alaris syringe driver & IVAC infusion pump; the Braun syringe driver; and are now using the Acromed Syramed - Syringe Driver and Volumed - Infusion pump. They are fairly compact, simple to use, have a 12v power lead option and so far, have not given us any trouble. Could you please give me some idea on the length of orientations you received. Thanks in advance & Regards Gary Mc Cormick Quality Management & Technical Support S.A. Red Cross Air Mercy Service P.O. Box 93; Cape Town International Airport; 7525, South Africa Emergency Number: (++27) (0) 21 934 8090; Office Tel: (++27) (0) 21 934 0916; Office Fax: (++27) (0) 21 934 8700 E-mail: gary at ams.org.za Web site: www.ams.org.za CHANGING LIVES. SAVING LIVES -----Original Message----- From: flightmed-bounces at flightweb.com [mailto:flightmed-bounces at flightweb.com] On Behalf Of Laura Criddle Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:47 AM To: flightmed at flightweb.com Subject: IV pumps Thanks to all of you who responded to my request about length of orientation, very helpful! Is there anyone who is using an infusion pump for transport OTHER THAN the Alaris Medsystem III? If so, what is it and do you like it? Laura Criddle MS RN CFRN Premier Jets/Lifeguard Air Ambulance Hillsboro, Oregon _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed From jimmnn at comcast.net Sun May 11 13:20:51 2008 From: jimmnn at comcast.net (James Richardson) Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 11:20:51 -0600 Subject: FW: Wisconsin Med Flight Crash. Message-ID: <001a01c8b38b$5d5e5b30$6501a8c0@richardson> 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. From irm66 at student.cpit.ac.nz Wed May 14 02:40:51 2008 From: irm66 at student.cpit.ac.nz (irm66 at student.cpit.ac.nz) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:40:51 +1200 Subject: Please remove me from the register In-Reply-To: <001a01c8b38b$5d5e5b30$6501a8c0@richardson> References: <001a01c8b38b$5d5e5b30$6501a8c0@richardson> Message-ID: Could you please remove my email address from the register as I do not want to receive any more mails. Thnaks, Rene. _________________________________________________________________ Get inspired - dream, research, plan and book your next holiday online with MSN NZ Travel http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Ftravel%2Emsn%2Eco%2Enz&_t=771497011&_r=MSN_NZ_travel_hmtagline&_m=EXT From EJLopez at salud.unm.edu Fri May 23 19:09:36 2008 From: EJLopez at salud.unm.edu (Evah Lopez) Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:09:36 -0600 Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron Message-ID: <4836FA50.F01E.0057.0@salud.unm.edu> If anyone out there uses high frequency ventilation (bronchotron) for neonatal transport could we correspond? I am tracking specific transports to justify the need for high frequency in our program. I would appreciate the time and you can e-mail me at ejlopez at salud.unm.edu. Thanks. Evah Lopez, RRT New Mexico Newborn Transport Co Program Coordinator University of New Mexico Department of Pediatrics Neonatology Division From JAppiah at cnmc.org Sat May 24 09:08:42 2008 From: JAppiah at cnmc.org (Appiah, Jolene) Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 09:08:42 -0400 Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron References: <4836FA50.F01E.0057.0@salud.unm.edu> Message-ID: <1048B454521F7545B97CFDB8DBF0190E0171A970@EXCHVS03.cnmc.org> Dear Eva, We decided not to go with the bronchotron at this time. I spoke with the Transport Supervisor at Georgetown. You may want to speak to him as well. I do not have his card with me at work today. Jolene Appiah, RRT Clinical Coordinator/ Transport Coordinator Children's National Medical Center Respiratory Care Services Department Phone 202-476-5105 Cell Phone 703-282-3958 Pager 202-259-0172 ________________________________ From: flightmed-bounces at flightweb.com on behalf of Evah Lopez Sent: Fri 5/23/2008 7:09 PM To: flightmed at flightweb.com Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron If anyone out there uses high frequency ventilation (bronchotron) for neonatal transport could we correspond? I am tracking specific transports to justify the need for high frequency in our program. I would appreciate the time and you can e-mail me at ejlopez at salud.unm.edu. Thanks. Evah Lopez, RRT New Mexico Newborn Transport Co Program Coordinator University of New Mexico Department of Pediatrics Neonatology Division _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. From bensemail at gmail.com Sat May 24 12:54:00 2008 From: bensemail at gmail.com (=?utf-8?B?QmVuIERlbmdlcmluaw==?=) Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 16:54:00 +0000 Subject: Flightmed Digest, Vol 56, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1220933454-1211648026-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1986447264-@bxe143.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Not gonna happen. Back in summit for some things. -----Original Message----- From: flightmed-request at flightweb.com Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:00:42 To:flightmed at flightweb.com Subject: Flightmed Digest, Vol 56, Issue 4 Send Flightmed mailing list submissions to flightmed at flightweb.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to flightmed-request at flightweb.com You can reach the person managing the list at flightmed-owner at flightweb.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Flightmed digest..." Today's Topics: 1. NEO transport with Bronchotron (Evah Lopez) 2. RE:NEO transport with Bronchotron (Appiah, Jolene) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:09:36 -0600 From: "Evah Lopez" Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron To: Message-ID: <4836FA50.F01E.0057.0 at salud.unm.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII If anyone out there uses high frequency ventilation (bronchotron) for neonatal transport could we correspond? I am tracking specific transports to justify the need for high frequency in our program. I would appreciate the time and you can e-mail me at ejlopez at salud.unm.edu. Thanks. Evah Lopez, RRT New Mexico Newborn Transport Co Program Coordinator University of New Mexico Department of Pediatrics Neonatology Division ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 09:08:42 -0400 From: "Appiah, Jolene" Subject: RE: NEO transport with Bronchotron To: "Flightmed" Message-ID: <1048B454521F7545B97CFDB8DBF0190E0171A970 at EXCHVS03.cnmc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Eva, We decided not to go with the bronchotron at this time. I spoke with the Transport Supervisor at Georgetown. You may want to speak to him as well. I do not have his card with me at work today. Jolene Appiah, RRT Clinical Coordinator/ Transport Coordinator Children's National Medical Center Respiratory Care Services Department Phone 202-476-5105 Cell Phone 703-282-3958 Pager 202-259-0172 ________________________________ From: flightmed-bounces at flightweb.com on behalf of Evah Lopez Sent: Fri 5/23/2008 7:09 PM To: flightmed at flightweb.com Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron If anyone out there uses high frequency ventilation (bronchotron) for neonatal transport could we correspond? I am tracking specific transports to justify the need for high frequency in our program. I would appreciate the time and you can e-mail me at ejlopez at salud.unm.edu. Thanks. Evah Lopez, RRT New Mexico Newborn Transport Co Program Coordinator University of New Mexico Department of Pediatrics Neonatology Division _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list End of Flightmed Digest, Vol 56, Issue 4 **************************************** From kkharrell at msn.com Sun May 25 18:11:12 2008 From: kkharrell at msn.com (Kimberly Harrell) Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 18:11:12 -0400 Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron References: <4836FA50.F01E.0057.0@salud.unm.edu> Message-ID: We use the bronchotron at All Children's Hospital Neo Transport. We don't use the high frequency mode very often, but we do use it occasionally. I am an RN and the vent is run by the RT, so I am probably not the person to give you details. But I can try to put you in contact with someone who knows more about it. Do you have specific questions? The phone number to our team is 800-456-4543 ext 4333. Hope this helps, Kim Harrell, RN ACH Transport Team St Petersburg, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: Evah Lopez To: flightmed at flightweb.com Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:09 PM Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron If anyone out there uses high frequency ventilation (bronchotron) for neonatal transport could we correspond? I am tracking specific transports to justify the need for high frequency in our program. I would appreciate the time and you can e-mail me at ejlopez at salud.unm.edu. Thanks. Evah Lopez, RRT New Mexico Newborn Transport Co Program Coordinator University of New Mexico Department of Pediatrics Neonatology Division _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed From richardzimmermanjr at sbcglobal.net Mon May 26 13:57:00 2008 From: richardzimmermanjr at sbcglobal.net (Richard Zimmerman Jr) Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Flightmed Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <124449.20821.qm@web82505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> We have it here at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi Texas and currently it is sitting collecting dust. I am the only RTs that has used it. No one wants to use it. Mostly due to the newness of because it is not for the lack of training. So basically we have a very expensive stretcher weight. I think it is a very good resource. I originally used it at Methodist Children's in San Antonio and hated it then because I didn't get a very good inservice on it. But once I took it on as my project, I love it. But I was told the reason we aren't using it is because P&P need to be written. Still waiting for those too. flightmed-request at flightweb.com wrote: Send Flightmed mailing list submissions to flightmed at flightweb.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to flightmed-request at flightweb.com You can reach the person managing the list at flightmed-owner at flightweb.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Flightmed digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re:NEO transport with Bronchotron (Kimberly Harrell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 18:11:12 -0400 From: "Kimberly Harrell" Subject: Re: NEO transport with Bronchotron To: "Flightmed" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We use the bronchotron at All Children's Hospital Neo Transport. We don't use the high frequency mode very often, but we do use it occasionally. I am an RN and the vent is run by the RT, so I am probably not the person to give you details. But I can try to put you in contact with someone who knows more about it. Do you have specific questions? The phone number to our team is 800-456-4543 ext 4333. Hope this helps, Kim Harrell, RN ACH Transport Team St Petersburg, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: Evah Lopez To: flightmed at flightweb.com Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:09 PM Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron If anyone out there uses high frequency ventilation (bronchotron) for neonatal transport could we correspond? I am tracking specific transports to justify the need for high frequency in our program. I would appreciate the time and you can e-mail me at ejlopez at salud.unm.edu. Thanks. Evah Lopez, RRT New Mexico Newborn Transport Co Program Coordinator University of New Mexico Department of Pediatrics Neonatology Division _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list End of Flightmed Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 **************************************** From hambleru at lebonheur.org Mon May 26 20:48:17 2008 From: hambleru at lebonheur.org (Darlene Hamblen) Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 19:48:17 -0500 Subject: Flightmed Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 Message-ID: <483B14010200004800029CED@lebonheur.org> We currently have 2 brochotrons that are mounted in our isolettes. We utilize both the conventional and high frequency modes. We also use it with iNO. Darlene Darlene Hamblen, RN, CCRN Chief Transport Nurse LeBonheur Children's Medical Center Office: 901-287-5218 >>> Richard Zimmerman Jr 05/26/08 12:57 PM >>> We have it here at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi Texas and currently it is sitting collecting dust. I am the only RTs that has used it. No one wants to use it. Mostly due to the newness of because it is not for the lack of training. So basically we have a very expensive stretcher weight. I think it is a very good resource. I originally used it at Methodist Children's in San Antonio and hated it then because I didn't get a very good inservice on it. But once I took it on as my project, I love it. But I was told the reason we aren't using it is because P&P need to be written. Still waiting for those too. flightmed-request at flightweb.com wrote: Send Flightmed mailing list submissions to flightmed at flightweb.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to flightmed-request at flightweb.com You can reach the person managing the list at flightmed-owner at flightweb.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Flightmed digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re:NEO transport with Bronchotron (Kimberly Harrell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 18:11:12 -0400 From: "Kimberly Harrell" Subject: Re: NEO transport with Bronchotron To: "Flightmed" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We use the bronchotron at All Children's Hospital Neo Transport. We don't use the high frequency mode very often, but we do use it occasionally. I am an RN and the vent is run by the RT, so I am probably not the person to give you details. But I can try to put you in contact with someone who knows more about it. Do you have specific questions? The phone number to our team is 800-456-4543 ext 4333. Hope this helps, Kim Harrell, RN ACH Transport Team St Petersburg, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: Evah Lopez To: flightmed at flightweb.com Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:09 PM Subject: NEO transport with Bronchotron If anyone out there uses high frequency ventilation (bronchotron) for neonatal transport could we correspond? I am tracking specific transports to justify the need for high frequency in our program. I would appreciate the time and you can e-mail me at ejlopez at salud.unm.edu. Thanks. Evah Lopez, RRT New Mexico Newborn Transport Co Program Coordinator University of New Mexico Department of Pediatrics Neonatology Division _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list End of Flightmed Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 **************************************** _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed From spe at prodigy.net.mx Tue May 27 14:03:55 2008 From: spe at prodigy.net.mx (Alejandro Cabrera, MD) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 13:03:55 -0500 Subject: Presentation. References: <483B14010200004800029CED@lebonheur.org> Message-ID: <000b01c8c024$07a10d50$6801a8c0@D2J75P91> Does anybody has some source, or, anything that may help me to complete my presentation about flight physiology in newborns during air transport? Thanks for your help. Alejandro Cabrera, MD, MBA. Servicio Privado de Emergencia, S.A. de C.V. ALS Ambulances. Ph. 011/52-(33)-3121-1232 Fax. 011/52-(33)- 3122-2177 San Francisco Ave. 3256 Chapalita. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. 45040 From hambleru at lebonheur.org Tue May 27 19:29:43 2008 From: hambleru at lebonheur.org (Darlene Hamblen) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:29:43 -0500 Subject: Presentation. Message-ID: <483C53170200004800029DDE@lebonheur.org> I would like to suggest "Air and Ground Transport of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients, 3rd Edition" Chapter 11 and 17 may help with your presentation. This article may also be of assistance. www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2730.htm Darlene Darlene Hamblen, RN, CCRN Chief Transport Nurse LeBonheur Children's Medical Center Office: 901-287-5218 >>> "Alejandro Cabrera, MD" 05/27/08 1:03 PM >>> Does anybody has some source, or, anything that may help me to complete my presentation about flight physiology in newborns during air transport? Thanks for your help. Alejandro Cabrera, MD, MBA. Servicio Privado de Emergencia, S.A. de C.V. ALS Ambulances. Ph. 011/52-(33)-3121-1232 Fax. 011/52-(33)- 3122-2177 San Francisco Ave. 3256 Chapalita. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. 45040 _______________________________________________ Flightmed mailing list To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed