Critical care transport in the time of COVID-19

Critical care transport organizations are nimble, operationally focused institutions that can aid in managing crises. Ornge provides air ambulance and critical care transport services to Ontario. From 12 bases, Ornge operates four PC-12 Next Generation fixed wing (FW) aircraft, eight AW-139 rotary w...

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Autores principales: Tien, Homer, Sawadsky, Bruce, Lewell, Michael, Peddle, Michael, Durham, Wade
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Ornge Supplement
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7262110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32398170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2020.400
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description Critical care transport organizations are nimble, operationally focused institutions that can aid in managing crises. Ornge provides air ambulance and critical care transport services to Ontario. From 12 bases, Ornge operates four PC-12 Next Generation fixed wing (FW) aircraft, eight AW-139 rotary wing (RW) aircraft, and four critical care land ambulances (CCLA) on a 24/7 basis. Ornge also contracts with private air carriers to provide lower acuity air ambulance services. Ornge performs over 20,000 patient-related transports annually. We discuss Ornge's approach to preparing for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and identify potential unconventional roles.
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spelling pubmed-72621102020-06-01 Critical care transport in the time of COVID-19 Tien, Homer Sawadsky, Bruce Lewell, Michael Peddle, Michael Durham, Wade CJEM Ornge Supplement Critical care transport organizations are nimble, operationally focused institutions that can aid in managing crises. Ornge provides air ambulance and critical care transport services to Ontario. From 12 bases, Ornge operates four PC-12 Next Generation fixed wing (FW) aircraft, eight AW-139 rotary wing (RW) aircraft, and four critical care land ambulances (CCLA) on a 24/7 basis. Ornge also contracts with private air carriers to provide lower acuity air ambulance services. Ornge performs over 20,000 patient-related transports annually. We discuss Ornge's approach to preparing for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and identify potential unconventional roles. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7262110/ /pubmed/32398170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2020.400 Text en © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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