Posted: 9/28/2016 8:41:44 PM EDT
| There was a bad single car accident with entrapment next to work today. Fifteen minutes later life flight landed on the highway. However they never loaded the patient into the helicopter. It may be a dumb question but for those of you who know what would be a reason for that? According to the news the guy lived while suffering serious injury. However that page hasn't been updated since 6 this morning. |
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Quoted: There was a bad single car accident with entrapment next to work today. Fifteen minutes later life flight landed on the highway. However they never loaded the patient into the helicopter. It may be a dumb question but for those of you who know what would be a reason for that? According to the news the guy lived while suffering serious injury. However that page hasn't been updated since 6 this morning. |
| A multitude of reasons... The patient was less severely injured than initially thought by looking at the accident, too big/heavy, helicopter malfunction, who knows their particular reason. However, there are a lot of legitimate reasons to call a chopper for standby and not end up needing them. |
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The few times we actually bothered landing on the highway, we always wound up taking the person with us unless they were DRT. That was my thought if they already had it there I figured that's how they would transport unless he died while they were cutting him out. |
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Seems strange that if they responded that they didn't take the patient.
I would hate to be THAT GUY and say , yea he is fine and just take him in the ambulance . And have the guy die on the way to the hospital . I have seen life flight wait 2 hours sitting g in the road while they cut the cab off a truck to free the women. Her foot was caught in the bent wreckage of the firewall . Nothing really wrong with her. She was alert and telling jokes. She was loaded in the heli and away they went. |
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Was it a government helicopter or a private medical flight?
In MD, the private companies race to get to the accident scene first, if you're conscious, the first responders will ask if you want to ride the private bird or wait for the state police's (which won't be much further out due to strategic basing). If you ride theirs, you pay out the rear, if you wait for the police helicopter, you pay nothing thanks to medevac fees added to all vehicle registration charges. If you're unconscious or in really bad shape, you're shoved into the first helicopter to arrive. It could have been a private helicopter that figured they'd get there first and beat the competition. Kharn |
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I am a volunteer FF. We are really rural and do a lot of Mercy and Life flights. They have said they will not transport if the person has coded.
I have been to at least on car accident where they didn't transport 15 year old girl had passed away. 2:30 in the morning 4 people in the car guess what the cause was? 
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Was it a government helicopter or a private medical flight? In MD, the private companies race to get to the accident scene first, if you're conscious, the first responders will ask if you want to ride the private bird or wait for the state police's (which won't be much further out due to strategic basing). If you ride theirs, you pay out the rear, if you wait for the police helicopter, you pay nothing thanks to medevac fees added to all vehicle registration charges. If you're unconscious or in really bad shape, you're shoved into the first helicopter to arrive. It could have been a private helicopter that figured they'd get there first and beat the competition. Kharn I'm from Pittsburgh and to my knowledge they are privately owned. There is stat medevac and life flight. Also to my knowledge there is no state police helicopter |