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SFCTIONA Tilt 1ST FLIGHT One Irs I aircraft ambulance has been In use since 1977 The helicopter is baaed at Air port north of Toronto and serves all of southern Ontario from Ottawa to Windsor Hell craft carries a crew of four people two paramedics and two pilots and capable of transporting two patient Patients ma be brought to one of three hospital depending on the thev require The Health System base hospital for Bandage One It brook Medical Centre In Toronto Photo by Ontario Ministry of Health GROUND TO AIR TKANSPOHTATIO Three Is based in Thunderbay a Is one of five aircraft operated by the Emergency System A smaller helicopter than the Southern Ontariobased One Ita can transport a critically III patient lo Toronto In under 12 hours This eliminate twoday ground transportation that was used the system was set up A third copter is based In Sudbury and lookout have fixed wing aircraft Photo by the Ontario Ministry of Health No happy landings when Bandage One arrives MARY LIZ SHAW Herald Staff In the quiet of the night air the thumping of rotar blades stirs a sleeping neighborhood Bandage One is coming in for landing at Georgetown hospital s helicopter pad There are no happy landings when the emergency service copter arrives Only rushing paramedics nurses stretchers ox equipment intravenous bottles and a patient in critical condition Its am Doug of It sounds like a scene out or a Georgetown Volunteer television show But Ontario EHS Service at the scene of a as been operating for to years serious highway accident in town transporting 111 Two have been from from rural and urban ureas their vehicle and are suffering from Toronto for the best possible major Injuries Doug and medical treatment in mutter of the other ambulance attendants notify Georgetown and District It a system Slid Doug Memorial Hospital while they If someone is suffering transport the victims to Emergency I severe injuries or on Doctors at the hospital assess the in limb the sooner we can get juries and decide that one of the pa person to Toronto the better must be taken lo Toronto They stabilize the patient phone Is difficult lo gjuge the success the Emergency Health Service to of the program In terms of lives lost ask for Bandage One Southern On x gained since the ambulance handles only the serious iases The ambulance arrives the vie would say eight out of ten people tun injuries are checked again by transported from accidents die of air ambulance paramedics and their Injuirles Mr McLeod said then the patient is irasfcrred to Sun without troansfer pa nybrook Medical Centres Tnuma cnts may suffer from severe In Unit for emergency surgery The en over the long term In tire process may take than two they can do wonders said Doug hours In some cases Ihcy may Saving precious minutes Bandage One is in Ion north of Toronto and handles all calls in Southern On It is the home to one of five air craft operated tlie Emergency Health Service Two smaller helicopters art based in Sudbury and Thunder Bay and lvo fixed wing airplanes a Cessna 1 and King Air Turbo Jet are based in and Sioux Lookout able to reattach an amputated limb we cant do that sort of surgery here in Georgetown My Impression is the service is quite favorable said Ann a nurse at in charge Emergency and Ihe Operating Room The two ambulance alien dantsl who have come here are tcr The helicopter landing pad or helipad was built il hospital in Since then the ambulance has been used an average of two or three times per month calls are rchyed from doctor to doclor although the helicopter will fly the of in accident if necessary If we hive an accident way out the sticks well oil the hospital for a doctor and the will land right at the said Doug Pilot never knows beforehand about emergency flight plan Jerry Bcattlc story reads like an adventure novel The 39yearold helicopter pilot is the Manager of Ones Air Ambulance service based at Bui onvillc Airport between Toronto and Markham He has been with the service since 197B having flown with Toronto Helicopters before that He became a helicopter pilot because he wis bored he said I was working in an office and 1 found I want to do that for the rest of my life he said I look a ride In a helicopter one day and my mind was made up Now he works 12 hour shifts for four days flying from tawa to Windsor or as far north as When we come to work we never know whether were going to be in or anywhere he said That the nice part of Job not knowing where you be from to day Although his destinations may be unpredictable the procedure us id by four man team of pilots and parjmedics is the same It a comes lor Windage One two paramedics and two pilots ihe helicopter which set to lake one patient the is in cons radio contact with doctors it Sunny brook Medical Centre and with the ground ambulance at scene Once Bandage One lands paramedics will probably spend ibout a half hour it the stabilizing the pat ten I The am is equipped with monitors I V a uelnbrillator For heart patients Although Mr and his erew of eight pilots have training in hirst Aid and Cardio he has very to do with patients he slid paramedics from pilols he sold They do job Ihey re train for and we do our job Since December of 1986 air am pilots have been flying a helicopter winch Mr describes is smoother quieter and faster than a Bell aircraft formerly the helicopter us for Band One From the publics point of view the is more neignborly makes a lot less noise It takes the crew minutes lo fly from Georgetown lo Toronto centre flying a cruise speed or ly NO miles per hour said Mr Nine pilots each working an of 14 out of per month diffuse demands of fly air ambulance unils prevent pilot burnout Toronto system is much bet than the States Mr Ilealtie said They arc tryuig to do same thing as we arc but we nine pilots they may have only two or three Mr noted that from a sife t standpoint air system has improved in the nine years he has been flying for And the hospitals arc more aware us now so ihey arc using us a lot more The Georgetown Volunteer Am bulance Service will invite Bandage One and other ambulance transfer units to Georgetown to celebrate its Anniversary In September All units will be on public display FLEE BEAT Motor problems invesliatid an unknown odor at lot If Sunday at i The cause of the odor appeared to be i burned out motor In refrigerator firefighters slid Whispers by Dor ten a Inter everyone to like me but smart enough know ihit not everyone will Hay fire million per aircraft In 1306 Bandage One responded to calls which meins the average cost of each over including maintenance and salaries The paramedics in the take extensive emergency medlcul aid training The three phase training program involves 12 weeks of classroom Instruction followed by hospital rotation and wecksof on Job training The training has been In depth very intensive It covers everything It been a ml challenge said piramcdie Mario This month air ambulance paramedics ire involved in the of their training and a number of part time attendants are working out of said Jerry Although many irgue helicopter advantage is Ihe time it saves Georgetown and Memorial Hospitals emergency chief Dr It Bourn noted that he is often faced with Ihe dilemma of weighing the speed of ground am to the air a mbul We find we ask ourselves whats the best way said Bourns By the time the air ambulance jets here and by the time they get Ihe patient ready sometimes git patients to Toronto faster by ground ambulance But said i single craft for of Southern Ontario seems lo provide adequate service To my knowledge we have ncvci up and been able to gi every patient transported by air ambulance lime is a fac tor According to pilot manager Jerry per cent of patients he transfers are riant mothers or premature babies Doug Mclcod notes thai even on a good day with little traffic miy lake his ground ambulance up 10 minutes to drive to centre of Toronto Once it arrives Georgetown a helicopter can make 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