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Old 31st Mar 2020, 05:28
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Originally Posted by Magplug
And how would they help exactly? With no medical training of any sort I guess they could be porters?

As a 'critical' transport worker I am told I must stay healthy so that I can fly all those backpacking sons & daughters back to their worried parents from the other side of the world. Or fly critical medical equipment around......

But hey... that not really critical is it?
It's many years since I last worked in an ICU, but ventilated patients have all manner of monitoring equipment whose data requires monitoring; pilots would be skilled enough to understand the data, learn the parameters which are safe and which are not. Of course, I'd rather have an experienced ICU nurse, but needs must
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