A good sideline of enquiry, I suggest, is the care of 'patient accompanying' passengers:, ie: child patient accompanied by terrified but otherwise uninjured mother. Both need careful handling, but the latter is not sedated, is maybe in shock, is half scared out of her mind, has never been in a helicopter before, etc, etc. Now there's a challenge for the airborne EMS professional, especially when their hands are already full.
In my experience the mothers
never notice the flight; they invariably focus
totally on the child! (Fathers on the other hand almost always end up looking out of the window, for at least part of the flight.)
Smallish helo (902) but we carry out CPR in flight and defibrillation if required. (also chest decompressions.) Most difficult piece of airborne ballet for the 2 paramedics seems to be dealing with a vomiting patient strapped to a spine board. (also gets quite slippery in the cabin)
