The Life Flight Network program operates out of 3 geographically located hangars (Toledo, Wauseon, and Clyde, Ohio) that encompass a flight pattern of 200 miles from Southwest Ohio, up to Southeast Michigan and across Northwest to Northeast Ohio.
Life Flight critical care teams consist of a flight physician, flight nurse, and flight paramedic. These teams transfer patients from emergency scenes, and also provide interhospital transports for critical emergent patients.
They also provide rapid response of a neonatal team and specially designed transport isolette to hospitals needing to transfer newborns. The team consists of a neonatologist, RN and respiratory therapist, who provide advanced life support care and stabilization for the pre-term and critically ill newborn. |
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The Life Flight Network added Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICU) to the program in 1994. These units are staffed with a critical care nurse, paramedic and EMT, and are indicated for patients requiring high acuity care when time en route is not critical. This includes the interhospital transfer of patients receiving ventilatory support, invasive monitoring, high risk OB, patients receiving vasopressors, surgical emergencies, hemodynamic instability and high risk cardiac patients. One unit is specially outfitted for the needs of critically ill or injured children and is staffed with a pediatric/neonatal specialist.
The Mobile Intensive Care Units are stationed in 3 strategically selected service areas (Toledo, Bowling Green, and Wauseon, OH) to meet the needs of requesting facilities. |
