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Vanderbilt is Middle Tennessee’s only level-one trauma center, and in recent years the hospital has expanded its LifeFlight program, adding bases in Wilson, Montgomery and Coffee counties.
The LifeFlight helicopter ambulance service has eight helicopters, operated by Air Methods but staffed with Vanderbilt Flight Paramedics and Nurses, and an airplane transport and makes more than 2,800 flights a year. Vanderbilt also offers an organ transplantation center.
Jun. 29—A lot of people hear Lifeflight and they think helicopters, but there is a ground element that supports the operation and on Thursday, a new Vanderbilt Lifeflight ground transport ...
"First, an unrestrained passenger may be thrown about by turbulence, leading to falls or head injuries," Dr. Ashley Panas, chief flight physician at Vanderbilt LifeFlight, tells Yahoo Life.
A respiratory therapist is a specialized healthcare practitioner trained in critical care and cardio-pulmonary medicine in order to work therapeutically with people who have acute critical conditions, cardiac and pulmonary disease. Respiratory therapists graduate from a college or university with a degree in respiratory therapy and have passed ...
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, offering a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs.
Jeff Balser. Jeffrey R. Balser (born in 1962) is the president and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM). [1] Balser is a 1990 graduate of the Vanderbilt M.D./Ph.D. program in pharmacology and subsequently completed residency training in anesthesiology and fellowship ...
Vanderbilt University (MS) W. Kimryn Rathmell (born November 3, 1969) is an American physician-scientist whose work focuses on the research and treatment of patients with kidney cancers. She is the 17th Director of the National Cancer Institute, having previously served as the Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor and Chair of the Department of ...