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
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.
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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 :)
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
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…
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❤
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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"
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.
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 are not.
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
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.
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.
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
nice to have someone who actaully knows how things are used vs someone just videoing truck itself. great job
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.
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.
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'm so glad I found your channel. I've seen tons of emergency vehicle tours, but NEVER one as detailed as this. Thank you.
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.
If that day comes, I could only wish this crew is nearby. 🙏💙🇺🇸
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.
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.
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
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
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.
We need these in FL
Thank you for the tour of the rig worcester mass just got a big rig just like Boston mass big rig
Great to see our products in their native habitat.
Fascinating rig; thanks for the tour!
love your vids bruv, seriously enjoy listening to you........i LOVE people with true kind hearts
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!
I don't knowy ass from my elbow when it comes to medical. I just think it's a cool rig.
I love your new ambulance.Beautiful .
In my agency we use liquid spring suspension which allows the back of the ambulance to lower when we need to load the stretcher.
This video is my new ASMR 😂 fell asleep 5mins in. You should totally do audiobooks. Very informative video 👍
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..
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.
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! 🤙
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!
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
You great job showing the cool big rig
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…
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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Awesome videos man. You’re killing it!
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.
Awesome! Fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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
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.
Awesome video !
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.
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
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.
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.
Impressive Rig!!!
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
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?
Can you please do a video on the Boston med flight citation jet?
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.
Hey I remember I met you in Cincinnati and God spoke through me about you that you just came from Alaska
I remember. 🤙
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
Top Notch Boston Med Flight!!
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"
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.
this is the kind of unit that rolls in pres motorcades too
Their helicopter actually lands at a big parking lot really close to my house
Where's the portable US unit?
Neato
How much does the ride cost for the patient?
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 are not.
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
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.
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.
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.
The name of the game is redundancy.
Hey, if you ever go to Stockholm, Sweden I would love to show you our MICU. Larger and better than this. ;)
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!
IFT life lol jk
Diesel exhaust fluid is just as gay as headlight fluid..
Trash waste of money
Not if you need critical care transportation. And patients rarely see a bill from us.
The walnut trim gives the most 70’s look ever. Can we swap it out for aluminum or carbon fiber.
hey brother it was great to meet u yester day u look so beautiful in person ha ha ha vary good thx