CareFlight 4, BK117 VH-BIF. paul sadler
Rapid Response
Focusing on major trauma in the urban area, CareFlight’s rapid response service is about taking the hospital to the patient. Getting a senior doctor with trauma experience, a paramedic and equipment to the scene rapidly can make a significant difference to the outcome of patients with severe injury.
Once the world’s fastest-responding helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS), Sydney-based CareFlight continues to deliver its medical teams to the side of a critically injured patient anywhere within the greater Sydney basin, on average, in just 18 minutes from the moment a triple zero emergency call is made.
Such a rapid response is no mean feat given the complexity of Sydney’s busy civil and military airspace, congested road network and the expanding suburban topography from the city’s growing population – which has now reached over five million.
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