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Medical helicopter bill is 'a tough pill to swallow'
Midlothian :: TX :: USA | 3 days ago
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Dana Strittmatter was boiling water in her kitchen in July when it spilled on her leg. After paramedics from Benbrook’s Emergency Medical Services arrived, they called for a medical helicopter from PHI Air Medical, a for-profit company that operates in...
Tags: PHI Air Medical, Larry Strittmatter, medical helicopter, larry strittmatters, Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, Midlothian, Air Evac, Ambulance, Paramedic, Emergency medical services, Air ambulance, Helicopter
Lack of safety features cited in medevac copter crash
Susanville :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility But as was the case in this year's previous lethal accident, in South Carolina in September, the helicopter did not have equipment onboard that federal investigators have said probably can prevent crashes. The pilot was flying by sight, and the helicopter...
Tags: medical helicopter, safety features, Mountain Lifeflight, NTSB, Brian Gray, Susanville, Safety of emergency medical services flights, Ambulance, Air Ambulances in the United States, Disaster Accident, Helicopters, Air ambulance
Officer OK after cruiser skids into semi
Regina :: Canada | 10 days ago
Credibility A Saskatoon police officer escaped serious injury after his cruiser skidded into the path of an oncoming semi-trailer Friday morning. A woman from Rosthern, Sask., is dead following a two-vehicle collision on Highway 11 Thursday night. Football fans...
Tags: Regina, Saskatoon, air ambulance, regina man, Saskatchewan Party, Canada, Law Crime, Rosthern, Don McMorris, Rosthern Saskatchewan, Politics, Ornge, Ambulance, Taser, Saskatchewan Highway 11, allnews, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Gendarmerie, Public Safety Canada, Saskatchewan, Emergency medical services
Six month old baby is sole survivor of a pileup
Two cars had a head-on collision – one of the cars had two women in it, the other had a woman and her six month old baby. Out of the mangled remains on the accident site there emerged the sole survivor – the baby!! All the three women were...
Tags: head-on collision, pileup, sole survivor, air ambulance, pram, old baby, humanitarian, Canada, Calgary, Car safety, Multiple-vehicle collision, Survivor, Disaster Accident, month old
Recent crashes fuel push for more regulation of medical helicopter industry
Charleston :: SC :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Twenty-nine deaths in 2008 – compared with seven killed in 2007 – spurred calls for regulators to impose new rules for helicopter operators. But some feel that's not been enough; Congress is now poised to pass a series of new rules governing the nation's...
Tags: medical helicopter, FAA, helicopter operators, emergency medical, helicopter industry, NTSB, bad weather, recent crashes, flights data, Christopher Eastlee, Charleston, Air ambulance, Copterline Flight 103, Hudson River mid-air collision, Helicopters, Air safety, Aviation accidents and incidents, Disaster Accident
Life Flight tells McCall hospital to use service exclusively
Portland :: OR :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility Life Flight Network has told McCall Memorial Hospital to use its helicopters in McCall and elsewhere for all air ambulance calls or risk losing the McCall base. Hospital officials told The Star-News 88 percent of air evacuations out of the hospital go...
Tags: Life Flight Network, McCall Memorial Hospital, McCall hospital, Portland, Life Flight, Air ambulance, Tom McCall
Woman ejected from SUV during crash on I-75
Naples :: FL :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility A woman was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital via air ambulance this evening after she was ejected from the sport utility vehicle she was riding in after a crash. The two-vehicle crash occurred around 7:45 p.m. near the 102 mile marker in the southbound...
Tags: Naples, Interstate 75 in Tennessee, Interstate 75 in Florida, Interstate 75 in Georgia, Disaster Accident, Ambulance, Air ambulance
Wasim Akram's wife passes away
Huma Akram, the wife of the Pakistan cricket legend Wasim Akram, passed away in a hospital in Chennai. She was unwell and on 20/10/2009, while on her way in an air ambulance to Singapore for specialist treatment, her condition worsend....
Tags: huma akram, Wasim Akram, air ambulance
Wasim Akram's wife Huma passes away
Chennai :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility According to sources, Huma suffered a cardiac arrest and slipped to emergency condition while on board, following which the Pakistani doctors accompanying her suggested to admit Huma to a hospital. According to Hospital sources, Huma was put on ventilator...
Tags: Huma Akram, Chennai Hospital, Huma Waseem, Wasim Akram, Apollo Hospital, Singapore, air ambulance, Waseem Akram, Lahore, Ms Akram
Wasim Akram, his wife make emergency landing in Chennai
Chennai :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility Former Pakistani captain Wasim Akram and his wife were on a plane that had to make an emergency landing in Chennai on Tuesday. The chartered plane, air ambulance, was on its way from Lahore to Singapore where Akram's wife was to receive medical treatment.
Tags: Wasim Akram, Huma Akram, air ambulance, Chennai, captain wasim, Singapore, Pakistan, emergency landed, Lahore
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