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Show Life-Flight Notes 10 Years Service to Area Life Flight, the air medical transport program of LDS P'J nnd Primary Children's Medical Center is celebrating two important milestones this year: 0 years of helicopter service with Rocky Mountain helicopters (RMH) and one million accident-free accident-free miles. The Salt Lake City aviation firm supplies Life Flight with pilots and aircraft one specially-equipped helicopter, based atLDSH, and two turbo-prop planes based at Salt Lake International Airport Many flights have been made into and out of Panguitch Airport to pick up critically ill or injured patients during the program's 10 years of service. The planes and helicopter are staffed by LDSH emergency medical medi-cal technicians, paramedics, and registered nurses. Other specialized personnel from throughout the hospital are available as dictated by the nature of ihe., injury. Life Flight safety records o ; Port service in ' to have 7,000 flight Ume,wiihG ;; of experience n v Wasatch Front p.- areon-duty24hoUn":V the planes and h,'- - , excellent conditio .L'fe flight Cove,, mile while transr": month-old boy fro Wyoming, to prm;; ; Medical Center, v'. fering seizures relj Webber Syndrome T ness. Life Flight was t hospital-based err-air err-air transport servj .. United States. Tods',"' ly 200. The ho- " fixed-wing Life R;1 years before assoc : Mountain Hclicop-:-was establishcV'io ' transport needs of patients who were t-; " LDSH from throe ; mountain area. The program's fh however, took a paur LDSH. In August ii :. Michel was flown fr- Stanfwd University),; to become one o( I J heart transplant pa;;;-; port program, still in'.. . relied on an a:;: medications and eqr-packed eqr-packed in a cardii-; transport was necesir cal hospitals were no; ing heart transptaits. Now, Life Kit transports more ihi : from throughout a ; region to local Ir.:r Health Care hc;; LDSH, PCMC, I-Regional I-Regional Medical Cerr and McKay-Dee He;; . Those transports ir.c!.:. pregnant women, ac;;:. transplant patients, another an-other critically ill r patients. Life Eight coven : largest geographic are: transport service in ' States. Its longest C; Gainsville, Florida. :.r flights occur within !: " " round-trip flying tire;: City. |