JeffSTAT

Transport Criteria - Helicopter and Specialty Care Ground Ambulance

JeffSTAT’s services should be summoned when time is critical and/or when an advanced level of medical expertise is needed. This includes:

· Unconsciousness

· Shock

· Head injury with decreased consciousness

· Chest trauma with respiratory distress

· Penetrating injuries to the body cavity

· Multi-systems trauma

· Definitive airway control needed

· Amputations proximal to the hand or foot

· Burns to the face or over 10% of the body

· High-risk obstetrics

· Neonatal and pediatric emergencies

· Time dependent cardiac intervention (PTCA, thrombolysis)

· Physiologic monitoring (A-line, Swanz-Ganz, or ICP)

· Fetal monitoring

· Advanced pharmacological intervention, including antiarrhythmics, vasopressors, paralytics, sedatives, and narcotics