intefacility STEMI transfers

[Wade See]

HI Dr. Kim, 1. Does your flight program participate in a regional protocol for interfacility STEMI transfers?We are in the infancy of an outreach program...we have a good program with 2-3 sending facilities, but not all of them. 2. In general, does your flight program encourage a "hot load" at the sending facility?No, we don't do hot loads or unloads.  We fly an Astar with a comparatively short shut-down time when compared to Bell.
3. In general, does your flight program encourage a "hot unload" at the receiving facility?Again, no hot patient loads / unloads. Our shutdown time is < 1 minute. 4. What is the average time spent at the sending facility for STEMI transfers (defined as the arrive at sending facility-leave sending facility interval)?  We don't currently track these times, but hope to start... Life Flight
Saint Patrick Hospital
Missoula, Montana
 

> From: boisedave at hotmail.com> To: flightmed at flightweb.com> Subject: intefacility STEMI transfers> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:02:31 -0700> > > Hello!> Just wanted to gain a bit of insight into interfacility STEMI transfers with the following questions. In return for your help, I will forward the aggregate results. Thank you in advance.> 1. Does your flight program participate in a regional protocol for interfacility STEMI transfers?> 2. In general, does your flight program encourage a "hot load" at the sending facility?> 3. In general, does your flight program encourage a "hot unload" at the receiving facility?> 4. What is the average time spent at the sending facility for STEMI transfers (defined as the arrive at sending facility-leave sending facility interval)? > > Optional: To help prevent more than one answer per program, what is the name of your flight program (I will blind the aggregate results and will not divulge any program-specific responses)?> > DTKDavid T. Kim, M.D., FACEP Idaho Emergency Physicians, P.A. Saint Alphonsus Life Flight Boise, ID> _________________________________________________________________> Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009> _______________________________________________> Flightmed mailing list> To unsubscribe or change your email address, go to http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed> 

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