How this military team runs a hospital in the sky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2022
- When service personnel, their families or any entitled British citizens who find themselves critically ill overseas, whether in peacetime or war, the Critical Care Air Support Team springs into action.
A unit is on call, with six hours notice to move 365 days a year.
Hannah King takes us on an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the team trains to take an intensive care unit into the sky.
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There was a channel 4 documentary years ago called “The Air Hospital” which detailed the same. An intensive care ward at 30,000ft. Not all hero’s wear capes.
Very true, I remember watching it. Was good.
I LOVED that programme. So, so good.
Not all hero´s wear cape but some can obviously fly
Just like the nurses on the hospital ships in the Falklands these people are just vitally important and they save so many lives. What they did for casualties from Iraq and Afghan is the stuff of legends.
Well done Ladies and Gentlemen.
Especially when considering how little space they had and the limited resources they could carry
That wing commander was humble, but anyone in field who got injured would argue people like him are guardian angels. They're just as important, if not more so.
Huge respect , gentlemen !!!
Kind of surprised this team doesn't have their own attached aircraft. The US operates 27 squadrons of dedicated air evacuation aircraft in the National Guard and reserves, along with 4 active duty squadrons, 2 based in the US and one in Europe and another in the Pacific theater with integral aircraft.
UK is on the decline, they simply don't have the funding
I was surprised too as borrowing an aircraft is not ideal, you want something dedicated that could be 100% outfitted to be a flying hospital. Pretty sure we even have Chinooks which serve as the first line before getting to the big boys.
Aeromedical evacuation squadrons in the US Air Force are medical units. They do not have dedicated aircraft. They all utilize Air Mobility Command’s regular aircraft that are available at the moment, and so each unit is trained to utilize C-130s, C-17s, C-5s, KC-135s, KC-10s and now KC-46s. They used to have regional medical evacuation aircraft called the C-9A Nightingale and those were mostly devoted to AE, but they were retired in 2005. Each AE squadron is a part of an Air Mobility or Airlift wing which has its own set of aircraft, so the AE squadron mostly trains with them, but members of the AE squadron deploy independently of those aircraft and use whatever is assigned to them every mission in the theater.
For example, the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard flies C-130 Hercules. The 109th Airlift Squadron does the flying. The 139th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron is the AE unit. They mostly train together, on their C-130s (mostly LC-130H), but when needed, selected members of the 109th AES will deploy as a team on a mission, on whatever aircraft the Air Force assigns and brings them or deploy to meet other members from other AE squadrons to make up an expeditionary AE squadron overseas, or to backfill/supplement other AE squadrons.
A typical assignment could be to the 10th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight at Ramstein, AB, Germany, the 18th AES at Kadena AB, Japan, 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Al Udeid AB or any other expeditionary or overseas unit. As such, the members need to be trained on using not just their typical C-130 aircraft, but any available aircraft that is designed for aeromedical evacuation.
Yeah doesn’t seam very efficient and having to pack boxes every time
Thanks!
I’s like to correct the title of this as it’s a bit misleading. Aeromedical evacuation are not hospitals. They do not provide emergency care not longer-term care for patients. They are strategic transports. What does that mean?
They facilitate long distance transport of patients who are in a condition that is stable enough to be transported. This transport is usually done between two medical facilities/hospitals. That means the patient has already received emergency critical care and should withstand a flight at high altitudes (lower atmospheric pressure) for a prolonged period of time. Typically, the patients are given sedatives to help them relax or sleep, if possible.
The crew typically consists of a flight surgeon/physician or two, a few flight nurses, a few aeromedical technicians and a couple of anesthesia specialists. The total number varies with the number and condition of patients.
The crew’s job is to build out the proper transport suite for the patients they’re planned to receive on the aircraft they’re given, receive the patient at the aircraft, load them, provide all needed care during transport, unload and transfer them to ground transport, and disassemble/remove their equipment.
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What about blood products , like whole blood and plasma & platelets ? I didn't see a small refrigerator or cooler . If the patients are unstable , they may need these blood products . I am sure they had portable suction , IV pumps and I think I seen a ventilator. There have been surgical trays for a tracheotomy ?
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Are the NHS and UK military separate entities? As an American, I'm curious. And are the medical records kept the same as well? In the US, we have extensive privacy laws that would make such a situation difficult if not impossible. The US government can always see my medical records, but Dr's cannot without my permission! Makes zero sense to me.
So what you see here are probably a number of volunteer RAF Reservists (I suppose the nearest comparison would be Air National Guard - but even that's a stretch, as our reserve/spare time forces are fully integrated with the regular) who have normal day jobs in NHS hospitals. Rather than have a load of regular RAF doctors and nurses assigned this duty full time, I guess they rotate it around the reservists for: a) experience, b) to prevent de-skilling of the regulars.
Anyway.
To answer your question - the NHS is seperate to the UK military - but remember, our healthcare is very much part of our government/public services. We don't have veterans hospitals or any of that stuff. Every citizen is registered with the NHS and even when they serve in the forces, they'll still be under the NHS. Just that some of their care will be provided by military doctors on behalf of the NHS. If that makes sense.
Which I realise hasn't really made that any clearer.
The again - the RAF provide services on behalf of the Department of Health(NHS) such as infectious diseases aeromedical evac. Until recently they also provided air search and rescue throughout the UK and would take people that fell off mountains to NHS hospitals.
Christ - the army have even stepped up to be our fire service 15 or so years ago for a while.
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@@AsteroidM749A Yes. It makes perfect sense to me, but not my politicians.
NHS and the military are separate entities, these are NHS nurses and doctors who volunteer to serve with CCAST but they probably share medical notes
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Looks urgent doesn't it
What part of 'ITS AN EXERCISE' are you struggling with?
@@1chish aren't exercises urgent?
@@Jay-gr9ij No. Exercises are the means to train people in procedures, terminology and other key essentials. Many parts will be run more than once within the exercise to ensure knowledge is retained.
Speed is of no interest in an exercise.
@@1chish Speed is of no interest in an exercise where time is essential in saving life? Especially under battlefield conditions?
@@Jay-gr9ij Oh yes very clever Jay. Or maybe not ..... 🤦♂
So you can only hold exercise under battlefield conditions otherwise no one knows what to do? Well good luck with that Jay!
I fully explained why speed is not the key part of an exercise. However it becomes an output. So speed is of course important but in casualty recovery accurate response is the key element. However you can easily lose speed when people are not sure of what the overall plane is, what their roles are, how the equipment works, where it is stowed and the sequences of operations. Anyone not 100% on any one part and speed is lost. So exercises are run to make sure all component parts are well understood which then makes sure any people CAN operate at best speed.
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Get a Airship as a hospital ship.
Too slow.
@@johnnunn8688 Elabourate. Because where can an airship go, that normal transport cannot?
@@rat_king- Because an airship isn't going to fly thousands of miles as fast as a plane would. The goal is to get the patient back home to a hospital as quickly as possible.
@@DanniDuck The Airship IS THE HOSPITAL they can move 12 Tons, atleast.
@@rat_king- The airship is a temporary hospital and isn't really meant to hold people any longer than necessary. It's to get them out of whatever country they are and to their home country as quickly as possible where they can get better care.
30k foot critical care transport
This is the UK. The govt/insurance will probably pay for it here. :)
@@DanniDuck He's not refering to the cost...
@@danielleeming1027 Oh, I see. Well, still, lol.
@@DanniDuck Airborne critical care transport is paid for by many countries and private insurances, but they are usually done by private air carriers, not the military. The military performs some civilian evacuations as a gesture of good will and as training for their members.
Why do UK medical staff wear kitchen aprons? It drives me crazy. For some reason. It just looks so ridiculous. It doesn’t say medical staff at all I know in a lot of other countries they use disposable gowns that are yellow or blue and all the medical staff wear scrubs that they can change . I
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