Thanks to the men and women with boston med flight. I owe you guys alot after a car accident in March 2018. BMF flew me from CCH to MGH. Thanks to BMF, ive been able to watch my daughter grow up. Wish i was able to thank them..
My coworkers sister owes BMF and this ambulance crew her life. Last year this ambulance was dispatched to cape cod for an emergent transport to Boston. She has a torn aortic and was unresponsive. Patients need to be stable or at least breathing for a helicopter right so medflight air was out. BMF crit amb transported from a cape hospital completed the complicated transfer and kept her alive for over 1 hour on the lucas, right into surgery at Boston. The additional manpower sent by BMF and the crews that worked hard with arguably a low single digit percentage of survivability successfully saved her live and now shes home recovered fully with her children.
I worked delivering supplying oxygen to Boston med , last year . I helped unknowingly to help your family member by making sure they always have oxygen in stock , I’m glad everything worked out
That’s so awesome, I work at Fal Hospital and BMF are just incredible wonderful ppl, they save our cape cod ppl. We love them so very much. My heroes. Thank you all so much
Boston MedFlight literally saved my son’s life when he was a month old and needed intubation and transport to Children’s. And this week I was able to see him turn two. Can’t thank them enough 🙏
I did their ride along program last November. They are very proficient. Even in their down time they are doing review of protocol and cross training. Their helicopter pilot even ran 10 minute lessons on how the aircraft operates. It was very motivating.
I was a medic in the wrong era. When I left the military, I opted to work in Alabama. We carried a drug box with 13 drugs in it(no controls at all). This was around 2000. I moonlighted driving the UAB Critical care truck, which was a Type 4 like this, but nowhere near this technology. You also didn't have the availability of a helicopter if you were outside the 60 mile radius or Huntsville, B'ham or Mobile. Even then, you were limited because Lifesaver, at the time, only flew Bell 206LR's. There were still rural FDs that didn't have Hurst tools. They flew a CC nurse and a trauma doctor from the level 1, so they did do some advanced stuff if they had to(which is probably nothing, today). If for no other reason, our skills were on point because we only had us to depend on. Thanks for the excellent video.
@TheDrMedic I know. If I had picked MD or NY to come back to, I would have had more stuff. But doing it there, improved my skills. I was it sometimes for an hour+ code 3 transport to the nearest facility. My partner and I extracted a guy from an overturned semi with 2 sizzor jacks(one belonged to a Trooper directing traffic) and a crowbar. His arm was pinned under the A post of the semi. He lost his arm but was happy he lived. No fire department (there was no fire) and the closest Hurst Tool was an hour away. This was on the AL, MS border in Pickens County. Then it was almost 1.5 hours to the Level II in Tuscaloosa. I was only 26 then.
I’m about five miles from the airport, and happily directly below the flight path of those helicopters coming back from Boston. There’s been general pushback by some of the neighbors about airport noise of late, but I’m happy they’re in my backyard.
Uh, I don't think your taxes pay for this. It's a non-profit organization funded by a consortium of Boston area hospitals and insurance company payments. No state run organization would be this well run and provide the services they do.
One of the best review videos I've seen on RUclips! (Granted, I'm a bit biased because I've worked communications for MedFlight for a decade, and I've been an EMT or medic since 1992.) I'm glad you got to visit Plymouth after they redid the hangar. Thank you for doing both of your MedFlight videos and sharing them with everyone!
Whoo! Close to my home and a place I love to spend time in. Love the tour of the vehicle. That chassis and what was done with the systems is almost mind blowing! So much thought was put into what was needed and how to get them installed in the right place where they are needed. Also, gotta love a 6-way from Sunday seat. That's one of those little things that are pretty important.
Always see these guys up and down I-93 and flying over my place on the South Shore. They're out there every single day! I've always been curious what goes on inside these transports. Love to see it!
I live in Mansfield, MA and we have a Boston MedFlight critical care base near where I live which is nice. We see the helicopter a lot because the airport is 5 mins away. Grateful to have them nearby in case we need them.
@@milesra22, unfortunately, they may not always be there if you need them. We’re coming up to the time of year when the pilots decline a fair amount of flights due to the weather.
I live in plymouth. Have always seen those huge ambulances driving around and thought how serious they look. I've also ridden on their helicopter before as a patient. Rough times. Great video
Four people to lift a stretcher, what a great luxury. Ferno stretcher x two people = a lifetime of pain! We preferred a scoop stretcher where “lock & load” has a whole new meaning.
since December 2000 i have been flown by Boston med flight twice December 15 2000 i had a stroke while working at Avon WALMART. i don't know when or what hospital i was flown from to Boston medical. this past August here at home in East Sandwich i fell i sat up had blood around me. so Sandwich fire took me to Plymouth where i was flown by you guys to Tufts medical this time i was awake for the ride. i'm fine after that had blood infection and large kidney stone.
Hi from Plymouth uk! i just found your channel, you have earned a new subscriber. Channel is awesome and i look forward to catching up on your previous videos and watching future ones :)
All the new equipment until the mini med pump. I remember when they first came out. Great pumps, it's amazing they are still being supported as many names that have been on them. Loved the Propaq! Much better for its size than Lifepak. MICU transport, Best nursing job of my career!
They fly directly over my apt complex almost daily, on the way to Boston. Which i can see from my living room window. Maybe I'll send them a cool photo of them flying toward the Boston skyline.
I always thought a freight liner is over kill. They are hard to turn. Top heavy. But then again what ambulance isn’t top heavy? And then I always wonder if they ever turned a medium size RV into an ambulance. I know they have the big RV/bus command centers. The Red Cross has blood donating buses. But taking a 20 foot RV (not counting the cab) could really make a nice ambulance I think. Anyways, awesome video, amazing ambulance! My comment is NOT knocking the ambulance, just my own curiosity on why things are done a certain way.
Lots of videos about 14, 16, 18, 20 foot ambulances. Also videos about mobile stroke units with complete cat scan units built in. This is all quite common really…
@@stevenrogers4663 well, our bases at the moment, are at Lawrence Airport, Hanscom Field (Bedford), Mansfield Airport and Plymouth Airport. Our helicopters occasionally fly over the Charles River in Boston, and sometimes drift close enough to Fenway for some really cool shots. We don’t have any bases nearby. The Longwood Medical area (BI-Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham & Women’s, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School) will bring our ground trucks nearby, also.
Thanks for the kind words. As a former paramedic, I have worked at life line for the past 14 years as an engineer, and it's cool to see our products in their native habitat
That truck is really cool. I never seen the Boston Red med truck up that close . Can you do one about the helicopter. I love videos like this because I dream of becoming a paramedic❤
We have CT scanners in some ambulances in Melbourne Australia. They’re specifically designed for strokes and patients get a CT scan on the roadside and can then be thrombolysed. Very cool stuff
Someone should tell them that those caps on the airhorns inhibit the sound of the airhorns. They’re not supposed to stay on there after they take delivery.
I absolutely agree the EMT drivers are a critical part of the team. Where I work, it is often just a CCP or RN with an EMT. Dual provider crews are rare due to budgets, and we make the best of it. They have to be my helper if things go sideways, particularly because my service is in a rural area, and divert hospitals are infrequent. Our EMT's receive the same critical care pay bump the CCP/RN's do.
I did a lot of critical care transports in my EMS days, then when I went and started working in the hospital I did critical Care transports from ER to ER or ER to a level one trauma center, I always would check the ambulance to make sure I had a full H cylinder of '02 then I made sure the air compressor work so I had air to run ventilators and things of that nature. And the third thing I always made sure the inverters work because we always needed electricity. And some of these transports would take 2 hours maybe 3 hours and that's driving at speeds exceeding the speed limit with red lights and sirens sometimes with state police escort. Where I lived it would be foggy sometimes and the helicopters couldn't come in if they can't see the ground they're not going to land and the fog would be right at the level or hospital would be at 500 ft above it was clear as a bill but can't see the ground helicopter don't land. Nowadays I guess they'll use GPS and they can do an ILS landing at your helipad at the hospitals I guess but they won't do it in the middle of a field somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
I'm surprised that they actually use DEF considering that the national fire protection association has stated that anything that can hinder the performance of a emergency vehicle law enforcement firefighting ambulances have put a recommendation out. That says you do not have to use that kind of stuff and a lot of departments, especially the ones that I have been on. They deleted their trucks or they just made sure they got rid of those vehicles altogether especially when they have caused issues, and there have been problems with vehicles operating correctly and for some reason, we had a deaf shortage one year and it was pretty bad and we weren't able to use some of our vehicles due to that. And they completely just eliminated all that bypassed. Everything and very rarely. Will you see any vehicles in my area with DEF unless it's in the bigger cities or they just are available. But a lot of departments throughout my state are kind of getting away from that. And if nobody's ever experienced what it's like for a vehicle to run out of DEF or even gets low. Your vehicle will only go about 10 to 15 miles per hour if at all. And it will not function properly once you do get it filled, it can mess up a lot of things within the engine and sometimes certain engines when they get shut down due to performance issues. Sometimes they have to go into the shop. And get reprogrammed, and that's just absurd. But I get out of East. They have a lot of democratic laws and liberal and socialist and communistic laws so i kind of understand how those vehicles might be mandated to have them possibly. But when federal government says Hey, you know what? Take care of your vehicles properly. Then maybe right should overrule. Anything and people should think twice about using that kind of system although the rest of the vehicle that is absolutely amazing vehicle. I've never seen anything quite like that and probably never will in never see these in my Districts. There is no way that we could even afford anything like that. Let alone do we have a use for something like that? We have multiple. Air life agencies located from 3 different states in my area. Considering we are on the borders of 3 different states and my state also borders one of the corners of the. Four corners which is only a few hours away from us. We would definitely not have the funding for anything like this if we need a life support from back. We are calling in helicopters from the closest area, whether that's vegas, california or if they have some in our jurisdiction available. And then we also have state police that have helicopters that are also equipped for air rescue. And once in a great while C H P will come out with a helicopter as well and they will just transport them over to vegas. I think we have more helicopters that can assist, then we do ambulances 😂 it just depends on where they have to come from. And sometimes we just gotta get them aboard an ambulance and start going and intercept the helicopter. That is our critical care system 😂
Liquid can't be compressed, but liquid can compress other things that are compressible. Think of two syringes filled with water connected together by a tube, when you press down on one the other one is going to expand. Well if you have a spring pushing down depressing the other syringe, you have a hydrolically seperated suspension system like is used in these vehicles.
LOL... The Med System III. "If you're a pro, you'll be fine"...As long as you do not press the service button... And you have to prime the tubing correctly.... I find it ironic that they have not upgraded their pumps. But then again, I cannot find any other multi channel pump that is certified for air use. I am sure they swap these out with their aircraft...
29:50 Not knocking it but I don't think the yellow color is intentional on the rails, I'm pretty sure those are straight up straphanger bars off a city bus!
Ive ridden in Life Flight Network's Freightliner which is very similar to BMFs. Definitely a great place to provide critical care if your agency can afford it.
So please dont take that as criticism, lets be lack of knowledge on my side: when this oversized, and heavy equipped vehicle ist the best on the market, why its not used in the rest of the world? My thirst thought is maybe wrong, but for me it looked like the american sort of "the bigger, the better". But would it be better to have a smaller, more agile vehicle, which uses a smaller motor and less fuel, which can be faster at the patient. Furthermore the price must be astonishing, wouldnt it be better having 3 regular ambulances instead of 2 of these running hospitals? This just fits the image over the exploding medical costs in the US. Please dont be offended I just have questions, I just have doubts. Nevertheless I'm always thankful for people serving such crucial support!
This isn't an ambulance in the normal sense of the word, this thing isn't going to be first on scene, it allows front line crews to call on a portable hospital to stabilize critically ill patients who would not survive a trip in a regular ambulance. Something like this only makes sense in a densely populated area with a rich area. Different areas have different ways of delivering care like this.
@a99117733 you mentioned the reason, that this is a densely populated and a wealthy area isn't valid, as there are other densely populated rich areas, who dont have such vehicles. The only one left argument is that in these other areas, people die due to the lack of such vehicles. That maybe reasonable, but I still dont believe it. Most of the additional equipment can be equipped on a regular ambulance on request. There is no need to drive the whole thing always around. I still see some american "the bigger, the better" ideoology, and adding thereby a lot of costs for a very low added value.
18:07:21 NY - Paramedic I thought it was a requirement that the clock in the back of the rig doesn't tell the correct time? 163 TheJeepMedic • 3y Page 1946, section 42, subsection 38, paragraph 9 of the 1958 Confrence of Private Ambulances states: When placing a clock, timer, stopwatch or other timekeeping device withing the patient care compartment (herein referred to as a "clock"), one must ensure that the end user is incapable of adjusting the clock or otherwise make it usable. Furthermore, it is strongly recommended that a clock be set 17.32 minutes ahead or behind the current local time. Services shall ensure that properly setting the clock and ensuring it is usable is part of the required pre-shift checklist priority re pease mute the as on ed urihi completion of any checklist. SEE: Dispatching Crews Before They Clock In
4:28 I know the the sign is saying no open flame, like "no matches," but I can’t help to think that it was also purposely designed to infer "no tweakers"
The critical care ambulance sounds like the European model: Begin work on the patient immediately. Very different from the US concept of "stabilize and transport."
We have critical care ambulances in Australia too. Depending on which state you're in, you'll either have a critical care paramedic crew or a single responding critical care paramedic backing up advanced care paramedics.
This is an ambulance meant to do critical care transport from one hospital to another, this is not a 911 type ambulance! We have some hospitals in the US that are just small critical access hospitals meant to just do immediate treatment, but not continued care and treatment for someone who is critically ill, thus the BMF teams takes them from those hospitals to tertiary care hospitals where they can continue to get more advanced care.
I’m a critical care physician. You have lot of tools that are not readily placed by the personnel you mentioned who staff that unit. Such as a TVP and ECMO canulation. Do you ever have physicians staffing, as well?
You clearly aren’t a real physician because all mobile unit like this are staffed by paramedics and nurses whose skill set can readily preform the functions needed on the unit . Any real physician knows their skill set is well in line with this. It’s a national standard
Patients, themselves, rarely get a bill. MedFlight works with their insurance, then writes off the rest. We (MedFlight) are a private, nonprofit company. Other providers might be, though.
Probably a dumb question, but I've been out of the business a long time. How long are the blood products(blood, pac cells, plasma) good for? How often to they have to switch them out?
On the trucks and helicopters, I don’t believe we do, but the crews can ask for someone from the hospitals to do it before transportation. Scene calls would be different.
gotta figure out your autofocus duder - trying to see what your looking at and the thing is bugging out - just bump the f stop to like 5-8 and let it ride
Huh, I did not know that you give 0 + blood in emergencies. I live in Austria and over here 0 - is still commonly used, but we are a rather small country :D guess I´m gonna get myself a 0- bracelet or something if I ever visit the US, just in case lol
It's to bad they can't be exempt as an ambulance & run a glider kit engine instead of running that DEF shit! I hear the newer engine setup is not as reliable!
Thanks to the men and women with boston med flight. I owe you guys alot after a car accident in March 2018. BMF flew me from CCH to MGH. Thanks to BMF, ive been able to watch my daughter grow up.
Wish i was able to thank them..
Thank you for sharing your story! It’s always rewarding to hear about the positive impact these teams have on people’s lives.
My coworkers sister owes BMF and this ambulance crew her life. Last year this ambulance was dispatched to cape cod for an emergent transport to Boston. She has a torn aortic and was unresponsive. Patients need to be stable or at least breathing for a helicopter right so medflight air was out. BMF crit amb transported from a cape hospital completed the complicated transfer and kept her alive for over 1 hour on the lucas, right into surgery at Boston. The additional manpower sent by BMF and the crews that worked hard with arguably a low single digit percentage of survivability successfully saved her live and now shes home recovered fully with her children.
I worked delivering supplying oxygen to Boston med , last year . I helped unknowingly to help your family member by making sure they always have oxygen in stock , I’m glad everything worked out
That’s so awesome, I work at Fal Hospital and BMF are just incredible wonderful ppl, they save our cape cod ppl. We love them so very much. My heroes. Thank you all so much
Boston MedFlight literally saved my son’s life when he was a month old and needed intubation and transport to Children’s. And this week I was able to see him turn two. Can’t thank them enough 🙏
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!!
I did their ride along program last November. They are very proficient. Even in their down time they are doing review of protocol and cross training. Their helicopter pilot even ran 10 minute lessons on how the aircraft operates. It was very motivating.
Boston MedFlight saved my Grandson I thank you so much for what you do, and the care you give
nice to have someone who actaully knows how things are used vs someone just videoing truck itself. great job
I was a medic in the wrong era. When I left the military, I opted to work in Alabama. We carried a drug box with 13 drugs in it(no controls at all). This was around 2000. I moonlighted driving the UAB Critical care truck, which was a Type 4 like this, but nowhere near this technology. You also didn't have the availability of a helicopter if you were outside the 60 mile radius or Huntsville, B'ham or Mobile. Even then, you were limited because Lifesaver, at the time, only flew Bell 206LR's. There were still rural FDs that didn't have Hurst tools. They flew a CC nurse and a trauma doctor from the level 1, so they did do some advanced stuff if they had to(which is probably nothing, today). If for no other reason, our skills were on point because we only had us to depend on. Thanks for the excellent video.
It's crazy to think that was only 20 years ago.
@TheDrMedic I know. If I had picked MD or NY to come back to, I would have had more stuff. But doing it there, improved my skills. I was it sometimes for an hour+ code 3 transport to the nearest facility. My partner and I extracted a guy from an overturned semi with 2 sizzor jacks(one belonged to a Trooper directing traffic) and a crowbar. His arm was pinned under the A post of the semi. He lost his arm but was happy he lived. No fire department (there was no fire) and the closest Hurst Tool was an hour away. This was on the AL, MS border in Pickens County. Then it was almost 1.5 hours to the Level II in Tuscaloosa. I was only 26 then.
I’m about five miles from the airport, and happily directly below the flight path of those helicopters coming back from Boston.
There’s been general pushback by some of the neighbors about airport noise of late, but I’m happy they’re in my backyard.
This is the one thing I don’t mind paying taxes for. Proud to say this unit is out of Massachusetts. Godspeed to you all. Saving lives.
That’s how it should be, until ambulances started charging for care 😂 cops don’t charge, firefighters don’t charge, ambulances do sadly 😂
@@michaell1603 - I agree. Private ambulance companies contracted by the city or town. They hit ya with a huge bill if treated.
Uh, I don't think your taxes pay for this. It's a non-profit organization funded by a consortium of Boston area hospitals and insurance company payments. No state run organization would be this well run and provide the services they do.
@@thomasmoran9114 - You are right and I agree.
Just wait until you see the bill for a chipper ride - tens of thousands unless you are a taker rather than a maker.
I'm a Field Service Engineer in the area, and see these out on the road a lot, always wondered about them. Thanks for the video!
One of the best review videos I've seen on RUclips! (Granted, I'm a bit biased because I've worked communications for MedFlight for a decade, and I've been an EMT or medic since 1992.) I'm glad you got to visit Plymouth after they redid the hangar. Thank you for doing both of your MedFlight videos and sharing them with everyone!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Whoo! Close to my home and a place I love to spend time in. Love the tour of the vehicle. That chassis and what was done with the systems is almost mind blowing! So much thought was put into what was needed and how to get them installed in the right place where they are needed.
Also, gotta love a 6-way from Sunday seat. That's one of those little things that are pretty important.
I'm so glad I found your channel. I've seen tons of emergency vehicle tours, but NEVER one as detailed as this. Thank you.
We see you guys. I always tell them that's Boston medflight saving another person when in the parking lot or at the beach. We see you.
Always see these guys up and down I-93 and flying over my place on the South Shore. They're out there every single day! I've always been curious what goes on inside these transports. Love to see it!
I live in Mansfield, MA and we have a Boston MedFlight critical care base near where I live which is nice. We see the helicopter a lot because the airport is 5 mins away. Grateful to have them nearby in case we need them.
@@milesra22, unfortunately, they may not always be there if you need them. We’re coming up to the time of year when the pilots decline a fair amount of flights due to the weather.
I wish we had this kind of pre hospital care locally. This is incredible.
I live in plymouth. Have always seen those huge ambulances driving around and thought how serious they look. I've also ridden on their helicopter before as a patient. Rough times. Great video
Thank you for the tour of the rig worcester mass just got a big rig just like Boston mass big rig
Great work on the part of Boston MedFlight. My only complaint is those big trucks used as ambulances are so rough ridding for the patient.
love your vids bruv, seriously enjoy listening to you........i LOVE people with true kind hearts
Four people to lift a stretcher, what a great luxury. Ferno stretcher x two people = a lifetime of pain! We preferred a scoop stretcher where “lock & load” has a whole new meaning.
Fascinating rig; thanks for the tour!
since December 2000 i have been flown by Boston med flight twice December 15 2000 i had a stroke while working at Avon WALMART. i don't know when or what hospital i was flown from to Boston medical. this past August here at home in East Sandwich i fell i sat up had blood around me. so Sandwich fire took me to Plymouth where i was flown by you guys to Tufts medical this time i was awake for the ride. i'm fine after that had blood infection and large kidney stone.
MICU's sure have come a long way. Impressive.
Great to see our products in their native habitat.
In my agency we use liquid spring suspension which allows the back of the ambulance to lower when we need to load the stretcher.
Hi from Plymouth uk! i just found your channel, you have earned a new subscriber. Channel is awesome and i look forward to catching up on your previous videos and watching future ones :)
Welcome aboard!
first time viewer, and i gotta say from what i can see thats one bad ass piece of art on that arm there!
A lifetime of work for sure! 🤙
BOSTON MENTIONED! Very cool trucks!
All the new equipment until the mini med pump. I remember when they first came out. Great pumps, it's amazing they are still being supported as many names that have been on them. Loved the Propaq! Much better for its size than Lifepak. MICU transport, Best nursing job of my career!
If that day comes, I could only wish this crew is nearby. 🙏💙🇺🇸
Love seeing you tour Medflight in my home state, the crew at MedFlight are some of the best people we have a chance to work with.
They fly directly over my apt complex almost daily, on the way to Boston. Which i can see from my living room window. Maybe I'll send them a cool photo of them flying toward the Boston skyline.
Bruh the emt gonna need a cdl before even applying for the position 😂
Not required, the EMT-B (driver) is required to have at least 5 year experience though amongst other criteria..
Emergency responders aren't required to carry cdl's. It does help if you do have one.
I think you only need a CDL if you're out of service
Hey I remember I met you in Cincinnati and God spoke through me about you that you just came from Alaska
I remember. 🤙
You great job showing the cool big rig
I love your new ambulance.Beautiful .
Would love to see you interview the folks that work these too
This video is my new ASMR 😂 fell asleep 5mins in. You should totally do audiobooks. Very informative video 👍
Excellent - thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Awesome videos man. You’re killing it!
Awesome video !
I always thought a freight liner is over kill. They are hard to turn. Top heavy. But then again what ambulance isn’t top heavy? And then I always wonder if they ever turned a medium size RV into an ambulance. I know they have the big RV/bus command centers. The Red Cross has blood donating buses. But taking a 20 foot RV (not counting the cab) could really make a nice ambulance I think.
Anyways, awesome video, amazing ambulance! My comment is NOT knocking the ambulance, just my own curiosity on why things are done a certain way.
Lots of videos about 14, 16, 18, 20 foot ambulances. Also videos about mobile stroke units with complete cat scan units built in. This is all quite common really…
Also, what a location, right across from Fenway Park!!
@@stevenrogers4663 well, our bases at the moment, are at Lawrence Airport, Hanscom Field (Bedford), Mansfield Airport and Plymouth Airport. Our helicopters occasionally fly over the Charles River in Boston, and sometimes drift close enough to Fenway for some really cool shots. We don’t have any bases nearby. The Longwood Medical area (BI-Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham & Women’s, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School) will bring our ground trucks nearby, also.
@@stevenrogers4663 none of their trucks are based in the City of Boston.
Awesome! Fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lifeline Emergency Vehicles makes these ambulances. Fantastic company..
Thanks for the kind words. As a former paramedic, I have worked at life line for the past 14 years as an engineer, and it's cool to see our products in their native habitat
have you done a light demo on one of these. would be great to see the system changing the lights from blue/red to green
Impressive Rig!!!
Their helicopter actually lands at a big parking lot really close to my house
Can you please do a video on the Boston med flight citation jet?
I don't knowy ass from my elbow when it comes to medical. I just think it's a cool rig.
if this thing responds to your accident scene and you some how make it. Expect the biggest medical bill of your life
we have something like that in tennessee with Vanderbilt University lifeflight
The fact that I know the buildings that were showed at the Plymouth Municipal Airport is just insane to me.
That truck is really cool. I never seen the Boston Red med truck up that close . Can you do one about the helicopter. I love videos like this because I dream of becoming a paramedic❤
Sure thing!
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I think it soon will be feasible to put a miniaturized CT scanner in designated trauma ambulances.
We have CT scanners in some ambulances in Melbourne Australia. They’re specifically designed for strokes and patients get a CT scan on the roadside and can then be thrombolysed. Very cool stuff
We need these in FL
UF Health in Jacksonville has two Trucks like this. TraumaOne
Someone should tell them that those caps on the airhorns inhibit the sound of the airhorns. They’re not supposed to stay on there after they take delivery.
Come to south florida, those are the only ambulances (Rescues) your gonna see
Shands has two MICU/Stroke units! I see them evertime I'm over there 😊 I don't really know how they're deployed but I see them all the time.
I absolutely agree the EMT drivers are a critical part of the team. Where I work, it is often just a CCP or RN with an EMT. Dual provider crews are rare due to budgets, and we make the best of it. They have to be my helper if things go sideways, particularly because my service is in a rural area, and divert hospitals are infrequent. Our EMT's receive the same critical care pay bump the CCP/RN's do.
I did a lot of critical care transports in my EMS days, then when I went and started working in the hospital I did critical Care transports from ER to ER or ER to a level one trauma center, I always would check the ambulance to make sure I had a full H cylinder of '02 then I made sure the air compressor work so I had air to run ventilators and things of that nature. And the third thing I always made sure the inverters work because we always needed electricity. And some of these transports would take 2 hours maybe 3 hours and that's driving at speeds exceeding the speed limit with red lights and sirens sometimes with state police escort. Where I lived it would be foggy sometimes and the helicopters couldn't come in if they can't see the ground they're not going to land and the fog would be right at the level or hospital would be at 500 ft above it was clear as a bill but can't see the ground helicopter don't land. Nowadays I guess they'll use GPS and they can do an ILS landing at your helipad at the hospitals I guess but they won't do it in the middle of a field somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
I'm surprised that they actually use DEF considering that the national fire protection association has stated that anything that can hinder the performance of a emergency vehicle law enforcement firefighting ambulances have put a recommendation out. That says you do not have to use that kind of stuff and a lot of departments, especially the ones that I have been on. They deleted their trucks or they just made sure they got rid of those vehicles altogether especially when they have caused issues, and there have been problems with vehicles operating correctly and for some reason, we had a deaf shortage one year and it was pretty bad and we weren't able to use some of our vehicles due to that. And they completely just eliminated all that bypassed. Everything and very rarely. Will you see any vehicles in my area with DEF unless it's in the bigger cities or they just are available. But a lot of departments throughout my state are kind of getting away from that. And if nobody's ever experienced what it's like for a vehicle to run out of DEF or even gets low. Your vehicle will only go about 10 to 15 miles per hour if at all. And it will not function properly once you do get it filled, it can mess up a lot of things within the engine and sometimes certain engines when they get shut down due to performance issues. Sometimes they have to go into the shop. And get reprogrammed, and that's just absurd. But I get out of East. They have a lot of democratic laws and liberal and socialist and communistic laws so i kind of understand how those vehicles might be mandated to have them possibly. But when federal government says Hey, you know what? Take care of your vehicles properly. Then maybe right should overrule. Anything and people should think twice about using that kind of system although the rest of the vehicle that is absolutely amazing vehicle. I've never seen anything quite like that and probably never will in never see these in my Districts. There is no way that we could even afford anything like that. Let alone do we have a use for something like that? We have multiple.
Air life agencies located from 3 different states in my area. Considering we are on the borders of 3 different states and my state also borders one of the corners of the. Four corners which is only a few hours away from us. We would definitely not have the funding for anything like this if we need a life support from back. We are calling in helicopters from the closest area, whether that's vegas, california or if they have some in our jurisdiction available. And then we also have state police that have helicopters that are also equipped for air rescue. And once in a great while C H P will come out with a helicopter as well and they will just transport them over to vegas. I think we have more helicopters that can assist, then we do ambulances 😂 it just depends on where they have to come from. And sometimes we just gotta get them aboard an ambulance and start going and intercept the helicopter. That is our critical care system 😂
I remember when ambulances were just station wagons with lights.
Liquid can't be compressed, but liquid can compress other things that are compressible. Think of two syringes filled with water connected together by a tube, when you press down on one the other one is going to expand. Well if you have a spring pushing down depressing the other syringe, you have a hydrolically seperated suspension system like is used in these vehicles.
this is the kind of unit that rolls in pres motorcades too
Great truck, but why does it not have any high visibility markings?
Much of the graphics on the trucks are reflective, but not all.
You referred to the truck's 12V power system; is it actually 12V or as with many commercial chassis 24V?
12v.
Nice... Wait until you get the bill, that alone will do you in...
Well, if you are ALIVE to pay it....
Our patients rarely see one once it’s been through insurance. We’re a private, nonprofit; other providers aren’t.
LOL... The Med System III. "If you're a pro, you'll be fine"...As long as you do not press the service button... And you have to prime the tubing correctly.... I find it ironic that they have not upgraded their pumps. But then again, I cannot find any other multi channel pump that is certified for air use. I am sure they swap these out with their aircraft...
😂😂
I do not know of another multichannel pump like this. If someone does lmk
29:50 Not knocking it but I don't think the yellow color is intentional on the rails, I'm pretty sure those are straight up straphanger bars off a city bus!
Ive ridden in Life Flight Network's Freightliner which is very similar to BMFs. Definitely a great place to provide critical care if your agency can afford it.
I drive for Life Flight and am living the new truck!
@@CondorTheBird Always appreciate you guys. I fly for ALERT out of Montana and you guys are our favorite ambulance/crew that picks us up anywhere.
University of Kentucky Has a unit that’s almost identical to that unit they use it for child transport only
Nah bro, that’s a limousine with an attached emergency room
So please dont take that as criticism, lets be lack of knowledge on my side: when this oversized, and heavy equipped vehicle ist the best on the market, why its not used in the rest of the world? My thirst thought is maybe wrong, but for me it looked like the american sort of "the bigger, the better". But would it be better to have a smaller, more agile vehicle, which uses a smaller motor and less fuel, which can be faster at the patient. Furthermore the price must be astonishing, wouldnt it be better having 3 regular ambulances instead of 2 of these running hospitals? This just fits the image over the exploding medical costs in the US. Please dont be offended I just have questions, I just have doubts. Nevertheless I'm always thankful for people serving such crucial support!
This isn't an ambulance in the normal sense of the word, this thing isn't going to be first on scene, it allows front line crews to call on a portable hospital to stabilize critically ill patients who would not survive a trip in a regular ambulance. Something like this only makes sense in a densely populated area with a rich area. Different areas have different ways of delivering care like this.
@a99117733 you mentioned the reason, that this is a densely populated and a wealthy area isn't valid, as there are other densely populated rich areas, who dont have such vehicles. The only one left argument is that in these other areas, people die due to the lack of such vehicles. That maybe reasonable, but I still dont believe it. Most of the additional equipment can be equipped on a regular ambulance on request. There is no need to drive the whole thing always around. I still see some american "the bigger, the better" ideoology, and adding thereby a lot of costs for a very low added value.
As cool as this is, I feel bad for the upcoming transport fee that will be pushed onto the patient 😅
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I thought it was a requirement that the clock in the back of the rig doesn't tell the correct time?
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Page 1946, section 42, subsection 38, paragraph 9 of the 1958 Confrence of Private Ambulances states: When placing a clock, timer, stopwatch or other timekeeping device withing the patient care compartment (herein referred to as a "clock"), one must ensure that the end user is incapable of adjusting the clock or otherwise make it usable.
Furthermore, it is strongly recommended that a clock be set 17.32 minutes ahead or behind the current local time. Services shall ensure that properly setting the clock and ensuring it is usable is part of the required pre-shift checklist priority re pease mute the as on ed urihi
completion of any checklist. SEE: Dispatching
Crews Before They Clock In
OMG. lol!
What is the point of this?
And that any device that has a warning buzzer shall have a mute button located in a secret location.
One of the huge things that is lacking in the ambulance services of the entire world is how to transport immunocompromised patients....
4:28 I know the the sign is saying no open flame, like "no matches," but I can’t help to think that it was also purposely designed to infer "no tweakers"
The critical care ambulance sounds like the European model: Begin work on the patient immediately. Very different from the US concept of "stabilize and transport."
We have critical care ambulances in Australia too. Depending on which state you're in, you'll either have a critical care paramedic crew or a single responding critical care paramedic backing up advanced care paramedics.
This is an ambulance meant to do critical care transport from one hospital to another, this is not a 911 type ambulance! We have some hospitals in the US that are just small critical access hospitals meant to just do immediate treatment, but not continued care and treatment for someone who is critically ill, thus the BMF teams takes them from those hospitals to tertiary care hospitals where they can continue to get more advanced care.
We (MedFlight) works with the sending hospital staff to treat and stabilize before transport. It probably is a bit different than you’re used to.
I’m a critical care physician. You have lot of tools that are not readily placed by the personnel you mentioned who staff that unit. Such as a TVP and ECMO canulation. Do you ever have physicians staffing, as well?
They do, fairly regularly.
The treatments and gear usually isn't placed by the staff, just managed
You clearly aren’t a real physician because all mobile unit like this are staffed by paramedics and nurses whose skill set can readily preform the functions needed on the unit . Any real physician knows their skill set is well in line with this. It’s a national standard
@@jozymoralesthe treatments and gear are definitely placed by the staff otherwise it wouldn’t be there
@@Thejeweler101 boston medflight isn't cannulating patients for ecmo
Yep, the bill is probably half the whole payment of a new car.
actually its around x5 or 6 of that
Patients, themselves, rarely get a bill. MedFlight works with their insurance, then writes off the rest. We (MedFlight) are a private, nonprofit company. Other providers might be, though.
Probably a dumb question, but I've been out of the business a long time. How long are the blood products(blood, pac cells, plasma) good for? How often to they have to switch them out?
How much does the ride cost for the patient?
do they have ultrasound?
On the trucks and helicopters, I don’t believe we do, but the crews can ask for someone from the hospitals to do it before transportation. Scene calls would be different.
Neato
Where's the portable US unit?
gotta figure out your autofocus duder - trying to see what your looking at and the thing is bugging out - just bump the f stop to like 5-8 and let it ride
Always trying to improve, my friend 🤙
Huh, I did not know that you give 0 + blood in emergencies. I live in Austria and over here 0 - is still commonly used, but we are a rather small country :D guess I´m gonna get myself a 0- bracelet or something if I ever visit the US, just in case lol
Exhaust after treatment is a hindrance for civilian medical emergency.
Top Notch Boston Med Flight!!
Come see us at SkyHealth 2!!
Is that the sister helo in Connecticut out of Newhaven? Or a different SkyHealth?
@@TheDrMedic were the sister ship.
it all good if No one drives with a cell phone in there hand,or unlawful drugs or alcohol in the body in the work person.
😂 Indeed!
The name of the game is redundancy.
What's up with the nose ring?
Hey, if you ever go to Stockholm, Sweden I would love to show you our MICU. Larger and better than this. ;)
It's to bad they can't be exempt as an ambulance & run a glider kit engine instead of running that DEF shit! I hear the newer engine setup is not as reliable!
And you are only billed 1 million dollars to ride in this, paid by NotUnitedHealthCare...
IFT life lol jk
Please don't "swear to baby Jesus"