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rescue5271:
RFDS do all transfers in the south east,but the day is coming that a chopper should be based here in the south east would make life so easy for us all. Not too sure if RFDS would land on roads up here due to trees to close hto roadway and there is always fog...
mattb:
I Don't think the RFDS do many road landings. Generally they would only do it as a last resort out in the more remote areas (ie Nullarbor) and conditions have to be near perfect. Also someone has to go along and knock over all the white posts and signs along the length of highway to be used.
strikeathird:
hahaha... Would love to watch the person trying to kickover all the white posts before the plane comes barrelling in!!
Blinky, u mentione 8 times a patient needs to be transfered in the current system, why is that ?
rescue5271:
Ok, in my area this is how it works, the patient is loaded into the ambulance,taken to the hosp unloaded,then reloaded when rfds gets here,is unload in adelaide,re loaded in adealide and the unloaded at the big flash city hospital..
Is this not to much mann handling???
JamesGar:
Now we're dealing with a lot of health issues around the number of patient requiring transfer from region and rural areas of this state for medical treatment in Adelaide. If we were able to maintain adequate health services in rural and region SA you would have the manual handling problem of the huge number of transfers carried out by SAAS and RFDS every day.
As for basing helicopters in key regional locations around SA, would love to see that personal, but can't see it happening without significant private sector funding. It's been hard enough updating the current contract requirements between all service users of the helicopters! I'd love to see a long range aircraft (even a vertical take off, short landing rotating wing plane) at Port Augusta which could be mained with 2x intensive care paramedics and 2x rescue trained firefighter to cover the far north, west coast and flinders ranges. So you might be able to free someone from a MVA at Yalata an hour before the CFS arrives!
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