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Editorial Board
Jacqueline C. Stocking, RN, MSN, MBA, CMTE, CEN, CFRN, FP-C, CCP-C, NREMT-P, Corresponding Editor
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General Information
Air Medical Journal (ISSN 1067-991X) is published bimonthly by Elsevier Inc., 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010-1710. Months of issue are January, March, May, July, September, and November. Bu...
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Transition Plans
In aviation, the Federal Aviation Administration requires that a Part 135 Certificate Holder must have a transition plan for key positions and tasks. The purpose of this plan is to ensure operations a...
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Eileen Frazer
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Intractable Seizures in a 4-Month-Old Girl
A 4-month-old, 7-kg girl with a 3-day history of mild diarrhea was brought into a rural emergency department (ED) by private vehicle. The patient's parents reported that the child was in her usual sta...
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Peter Tilney,
Samuel Schaab,
Heather Cady
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When Is a Calendar a Kickback?
The debate over the future of health care spending is at its peak with the presidential election on the horizon, but the ideas of fiscal responsibility and fair distribution of the federal health care...
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John R. Clark
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Field Trauma Triage Guide Revised
Sasser SM, Hunt RC, Faul M, Sugerman D, Pearson WS, Dulski T, et al. Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. Morb Mort Week...
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Daniel Hankins
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Forum
This spring, ASTNA sponsored both our president and president elect to attend the AAMS Spring Legislative Conference in Washington, DC. Pertinent legislation was discussed, but the most impact that we...
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Simulator Training: Reducing Risk in Helicopter Rescue
In most countries, preclinical emergency medicine is exclusively run by paramedics. In Germany, Prof. Martin Kirschner, as one of the leading surgeons of his time, proposed as early as 1938 to bring t...
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Maximilian Petri,
Lars Friedrich,
Frank Hildebrand,
Philipp Mommsen,
Stephan Brand,
Volker Hubrich,
Sebastian Middeke,
Christian Krettek,
Christian Zeckey
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Collective Air Medical Evacuation: The French Tool
The cornerstone of the current concept of military medical operations is the function, fit, and form of the provision of en route care. The life-saving capability of far-forward surgery creates the ne...
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Marc Borne,
Jean P. Tourtier,
Solange Ramsang,
Laurent Grasser,
Bruno Pats
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Unknown, Unrecognized, and Underreported: Flicker Vertigo in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services
A newly hired flight nurse began her first day on duty, embarking on a new career path and exposure to an entirely different work environment. She is part of a rotor wing transport team; on her second...
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Kevin High,
Amy Moore
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Heliox in Children with Croup: A Strategy to Hasten Improvement
Abstract: Objective: Upper airway obstruction is responsive to the reduction in airflow turbulence provided by helium/oxygen (heliox) admixture. Our pediatric critical care transport team (PCCTT) has ...
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Sarah Kline-Krammes,
Christina Reed,
John S. Giuliano,
Hamilton P. Schwartz,
Michael Forbes,
John Pope,
James Besunder,
Michael D. Gothard,
Kerry Russell,
Michael T. Bigham
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Air Medical Services Must Be Prepared for Massive Transfusion
In 1928, the first Australian civilian air medical service was established in Cloncurry, Queensland. Today, air medical transport of patients in Queensland—a state incorporating a land area of 1.7 mil...
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Luke D. Lawton
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I'll Take Passion for $1000
Recently a health care institution implemented a new uniform policy based on input from patient surveys. It had been determined that patients perceived nurses in white uniforms as more professional, s...
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Janie Kofford Ford
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Concern Network
The Concern Network shares verified information to alert medical transport programs when an accident/incident has occurred. Both air and ground programs are encouraged to participate. If you have ques...
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Jill Johnson
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