Medical crew

A paramedic with Norsk Luftamblanse has recently found a cheaper way of conducting training for using ultrasound equipment to locate blood vessels in patients – making his own model. In a video posted online, Nils Petter Ovelands demonstrates how to make and use the gelatine and water-based simulator.

 

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One of the paramedics at the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance Service in the UK has flown his last mission for the charity and is packing his bags, before he heads back to the ground-ambulance crew at the South East Coast Ambulance Service. Mick Carter is the charity's second longest serving paramedic in the charity's history.

The Canadian Forces (CF) has announced in its July newsletter that the CF now has an improved capability for aeromedical evacuation (AE). For the first time, eight flight surgeon candidates spent a week at CF Base Trenton learning about the CF aeromedical evacuation system and how it works, the equipment and aircraft used, and how to deal with medical problems that might occur in the air while transporting sick or injured patients.

A Royal Air Force (RAF) Boulmer search and rescue radar/winch operator has reached a momentous milestone in his career, recording 10,000 flying hours in a Sea King helicopter. Master Aircrew (MACR) Ron Webb achieved his 10,000th Sea King hour (the equivalent of 1 year, 1 month and 20 days in the air) in a helicopter from A Flight 202 Squadron at Boulmer where 60-year-old Webb has been based since 1986. Webb’s family and colleagues were there to meet him and the Station Commander Group Captain Phil Cox presented him with a bottle of champagne to mark the event.