Coronavirus - HEMS transport of infected patient
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Coronavirus - HEMS transport of infected patient
Gooday fellow pilots,
Would like your collective industry thoughts on the HEMS tranportation of an infected 2019-nCoV coronavirus patient in an open cabin/cockpit helicopter please. Thank you.
Shoot with the good, the bad and the ugly of what you would do and would not do. Thanks!
Would like your collective industry thoughts on the HEMS tranportation of an infected 2019-nCoV coronavirus patient in an open cabin/cockpit helicopter please. Thank you.
Shoot with the good, the bad and the ugly of what you would do and would not do. Thanks!
Gooday fellow pilots,
Would like your collective industry thoughts on the HEMS tranportation of an infected 2019-nCoV coronavirus patient in an open cabin/cockpit helicopter please. Thank you.
Shoot with the good, the bad and the ugly of what you would do and would not do. Thanks!
Would like your collective industry thoughts on the HEMS tranportation of an infected 2019-nCoV coronavirus patient in an open cabin/cockpit helicopter please. Thank you.
Shoot with the good, the bad and the ugly of what you would do and would not do. Thanks!
Helicrazi,
Lol, the understanding of “ crack on” doesn’t seem to known worldwide, yet! It is now quite well known amongst the team I work with in downtown Atlanta... along with other comments, like “gob****e”.... need to pull the Oxford English Dictionary out on occasions!
Lol, the understanding of “ crack on” doesn’t seem to known worldwide, yet! It is now quite well known amongst the team I work with in downtown Atlanta... along with other comments, like “gob****e”.... need to pull the Oxford English Dictionary out on occasions!
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Be extremely foolish piloting yourself and your medic crew to transport a deadly infectious corovavirus patient to a medical facility in an open cabin/cockpit aircraft, helicopter or airplane. No amount of comfortable, aircraft pilot seat wearable PPE would keep you safe, no matter the short distance to hospital, the virus would remain on the carpets and in the seats covers for a while, and in the a/c system for long time unless you changed the filters - been proven time and time again. You'd be exposing all to the virus, and all those that follow in the aircraft, and at the workplace, and at home. Risk versus reward balance totally against your favour. Vitually all HEMS Operators, my old one too, will not fly contagious patients in their fixed or rotor wing fleet, risk of serious infection or death too high to all concerned, managament and owners included, aicraft badly contaminated, insurance is invalid, the list goes on. And on. And on.
Do not do it, period.
Do not do it, period.
GrayHorizons - that reminds me of the Swingfog device used in Belize to control mossies - the guy used to walk through the Mess with it going full chat. Total IMC for quite a few minutes! Don't know what the chemical was, but I'm still here 30 years later!
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On Saturday I called 000 for a ambulance to attend a young man with suspected broken ankle.
At the end of the call the operator said “I have to ask you, has the patient visited China in the last two weeks?”
I wondered what measures would be triggered if answering the question in the affirmative.
mjb
At the end of the call the operator said “I have to ask you, has the patient visited China in the last two weeks?”
I wondered what measures would be triggered if answering the question in the affirmative.
mjb
MJB - have you seen Monsters Inc? 
