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Show LOB Lif o KrligSif saves liuos ment. It is capable of lifting lift-ing off within seven minutes after receiving a call for assistance. Our Editor, N.E. Wilson, had need to utilize the Life Flight to rush him to St. Mark's Hospital recently. Many lives are saved with the help of this emergency Air Flight system. Helicopters were first used during the Korean War to transport Injured soldiers from the battleground to hospitals. hos-pitals. For the past 20 months LDS Hospital's specially spe-cially trained Life Flight ambulance helicopter staff has also been transporting victims from remote areas of the Intermountain West to medical centers. Victims of auto, motorcycle motor-cycle and airplane acvidents, drug overdoses, gunshots, near drownings, industrial mishaps, heart attacks, shock and critical illnesses are flown to major medical centers. "We have discovered discov-ered that these individuals have a 25 better chance of survival if they are adequately ade-quately treated at the scene and flown to a major hospital hos-pital for care. The helicopter program transports some 550 patients annually. The hospital also operates a fixed wing air transport service. Life Flight is an airborne intensive care unit, which can carry two medical personnel, per-sonnel, two patients, a pilot pi-lot and 300 pounds of equip- |
