Re: air medical helicopters in a disaster situation

[John.L.Levitow@Hitchcock.ORG (John L. Levitow)]

Lisa,

I am currently pursuing a  Masters degree in Emergency Management and this topic has been an interest of mine.  This past week I presented this topic at a International Emergency Management conference and found air medical helicopters are not routinely used.  There is no documentation to support the inclusion of critical care transport programs into emergency management.  I am in the process of developing a survey to attempt to capture this data.  In the course of my research I did not find a great amount of information.  There is a FAA document you can look at:  Integrating Helicopter and Tilt rotor Assets into Disaster Relief Planning (http://www1.faa.gov/avr/afs/acs/00-59.txt).  This may help you.  I hope to have some raw data after the first of the year, maybe that will be some help to you.  If you would like a copy of the paper I wrote on this topic let me know and I can e-mail it to you.

John
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