Saturday, August 26, 2006

MedFlight-One (Collier County, FL)

Timothy has been flying Medevac for Collier County EMS's MedFlight since the summer of 2004. He can be contacted at 239-591-8276 or by email at TimothyA76@yahoo.com.








MED-FLIGHT ONE OVER KEEWAYDIN ISLAND, NAPLES FLORIDA







COLLIER COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE'S MEDFLIGHT-ONE 






Stationed at South-West Florida’s Naples Airport Collier County EMS’s MedFlight-One is staffed and on-call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The helicopter's flight-crew consists of one pilot and two flight-medics. The primary mission is pre-hospital trauma scene transport. MedFlight-One can simultaneously transport two critically injured patients from an accident scene and provides advanced pre-hospital life support with a complete compliment of over 40 medications. On board medical equipment includes: 4 and 12 lead electrocardiograms with defibrillator/pacer,  pulse oximeter, automatic blood pressure, end tidal CO2 monitoring, automatic ventilators, suction and AirTreq intubation for RSI. 



MedFlight-One is an American Eurocopter EC-135 twin engine helicopter. It has a maximum gross weight of 6000 pounds, a top speed of 167 miles per hour and a maximum altitude limit of 20,000 feet. It features a Fenestron (Fan-in-Tail) tail rotor that helps to reduce noise and improve safety. The two engines are Turbomeca Arrius - some of the most reliable in the helicopter industry. MedFlight-One is also equipped with an in-flight weather radar, dual GPS/WAAS navigation system, H-TAWS, TCAS, Radar Altimeter, NVGs (Night Vision Goggles) and a 15 million candle-power searchlight.


 







Artwork from the Off-Duty T-shirt designed by Timothy.











Timothy also works as a part-time pilot for Collier County Mosquito Control; he is the only pilot in Collier County history that has flown for all three county agencies.