I was asked yesterday by the medic if we were prepared to carry SARS patients. We are not normally a medical transfer aircraft but have the provisions for oxygen and stretchers if our contract provider requires the emergency extraction of an employee.
My answer involved many uum’s and aar’s but inevitably I said that if we had the same equipment issued to us as the medical officers then I couldn’t see a problem.
Should I now regret this answer if in the unlikely event we are actually required to carry a patient with SARS or any other virus for that matter?
Is there guidelines within an EMS operators Op’s manual that covers the transfer of patients with infectious diseases?
I think I will just turn on the ECS ……………………
