Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Local Emergency Responders Attend IU LifeLine Training


On June 12th the departments of Tri-Village Rescue and New Madison Volunteer Fire Department as well Liberty Township Fire Department met at the Tri-Village Rescue Services station for a joint training with IU LifeLine out of Richmond IN. IU LifeLine had placed an ECI145 helicopter at the Richmond Airport in April of this year. IU LifeLine is one of the few Hospital owned and operated helicopter programs in the nation.

The training was held on the helipad located at Tri-Village Rescue, the crew of Carey Domres, Pilot Taylor Moore, RN and Jamie Swoboda, Paramedic worked with the first responders on loading the aircraft both running and shut down as the IU Aircraft is a rear load aircraft which is different from the aircrafts normally used in Darke County.

The crew explained that they carry 4 units of O- blood on all flights as well as Istat blood analyzers to do blood work while in flight on all missions.

Eric Burns, Chief of EMS for Tri-Village Rescue stated. “We have used CareFlight out of Dayton for the last 25 years and they have served our communities and the patients that they transported with exceptional care, but it is wonderful to have an aircraft that is only 12 to 15 minutes away. We were concerned when we were approached about the service coming out of Richmond transporting our patients to Indianapolis, but we were assured they will transport the critically injured or ill to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton unless the patient request to go to another appropriate hospital such as Kettering, Indianapolis or Cincinnati.

Tri-Village Rescue will still utilize Careflight out of Dayton when IU is out on another flight. It only makes since to use the closest aircraft to our area to get our patients to a level 1 Trauma Center as quickly as possible, IU LifeLine is the closest to our district and can be anywhere in the Tri-Village Area in 12 to 15 minutes. Darke County residents are very fortunate to have two outstanding services available to them in their time of need.

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