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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 Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a medical provider with multiple hospitals in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as clinics and facilities throughout Middle Tennessee. VUMC is an independent non-profit organization, but maintains academic affiliations with Vanderbilt University.
Flight for Life is a prehospital care service with many bases of operation across the United States. [1] Flight for Life is primarily known for its emergency medical helicopter transport, but also operates a fleet of land vehicles and fixed-wing aircraft for the transport of critically ill patients to specialized medical care. [2]
Another episode followed a burn patient through his recovery at Vanderbilt University 's medical center, allowing the show to profile the co-director of the burn center and one of the burn care technicians as a change of pace from the usual ER/Trauma cases. First-run production ended in 2002, though the show lives on in reruns on Discovery Life.
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 ...
A medical evacuation helicopter is seen in the background in this photo taken during Stephen Canty’s time in Afghanistan. (Courtesy of Stephen Canty) Late that afternoon Darren Doss, a slim, black-haired 22-year-old, watched as his fellow Marines zipped up the two body bags, placed them tenderly on stretchers and ran out to the waiting ...
She was a rescue helicopter physician for the early Space Shuttle flights and a support crew member for STS-6. She served as a member of NASA's Aerospace Medical Advisory Committee, as a technical assistant to the director of flight crew operations, and as a capsule communicator (CAPCOM) in the Mission Control Center.
Air medical services. Air medical services are the use of aircraft, including both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to provide various kinds of urgent medical care, especially prehospital, emergency and critical care to patients during aeromedical evacuation and rescue operations.