Air Medical Helicopter Transport Research Paper Assistance Needed

[LifesAHelicopter@aol.com]

On 29 Jan 2002, ByHeloOrByGround@aol.com wrote:

> Dear Flightweb Webmaster,
>
> I am currently writing a paper as a freelance journalist regarding
> non-warranted Air Medical Helicopter transports. I hope to have
> this paper completed and present this topic at the next annual air
> medical conference.

> In an overview, I hope to, by writing this paper, prevent
> un-necessary/unwarranted air medical flights, creating increased
> aircraft safety by preventing accidents that are the result of non
> warranted air medical transport flights.
>
> My focus relates to the inapproprate assessment of patients via
> field personnel that may not require air medical transportation,
> VS. the danger of operating air medical helicopters and the tieing
> up of such aircraft, making them unavailable for truly critical
> air transports.
>
> Could you assist me in creating some starting survey statistics
> from the viewpoint of air medical helicopter transport personnel,
> in the form of an online poll. Such as: "In your professional
> opinion, what percentage of scene flights result in non-warranted,
> non-criteria met air medical transportation.

Warm Regards,

Joe Mattern
Orlando, Florida
(407) 888-5749
byheloorbyground@aol.com

I'm not sure I can help you out in a way that will truly be useful.
The polls on FlightWeb, first of all, cannot be limited to specific
populations such as helicopter transport personnel. The visitor
demographic to the FlightWeb site is much broader than that and
includes helicopter and fixed-wing personnel, as well as non-flying
EMS, hospital staff and laypeople. My recommendation is to go ahead
and subscribe to the Flightmed mailing list and post your survey
there. Not only will you get a number of responses, you will probably
generate some intersting discussions.

The subscription address is at:
http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/flightmed


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