Lifeflight

This is the air medical transport service which is affiliated with the residency program.

There are 3 helicopters which respond throughout northwest Ohio directly to accident scenes, as well and transfers between hospitals.  This is one of the most exciting and challenging aspects of the Emergency Medicine Training Program.

   

Here's the choppers!!!

The following photos are all part of my personal Lifeflight experience.  Some are scenic, others are tragic, but all are very real!!!

This was our flight crew on 11/30/01.

     

Here's the view from the doc's seat in the back of the aircraft.

    

Occasionally, when we don't have a patient, we get a chance to sit back and enjoy the view.

    

These are photos from a scene flight where a dumptruck full of asphalt collided head-on with a pickup truck.  The driver of the small truck was dead at the scene and the dump-truck driver was badly burned, he was flown to Saint Vincent to be cared for in the Burn Center.

         

These are two of my favorite vehicles, my truck and my helicopter.

    

If you're nice enough to the Flight Nurses you get to ride up front once in a while.

    

The passenger in the above vehicle had her heart stop during the flight to the hospital.  With the help of the trauma team we were able to revive her shortly after arrival at the Trauma Center.

    

This was a scene flight where a front-end loader flipped over in a quarry.  It took over an hour to dig the driver out.  He had some injuries, was flown to Saint Vincent and released about 3 days later.

I was flying the day that Julie went into labor and had to cut my shift short.  Colleen was born later this day!!

Colleen had lots of fun at Lifeflight Photo Day!!

    

We don't know whether she'll be a farmer or a pilot!!!

Here's our family with Colleen at 9 Months Old and Julie at 18 weeks pregnant.