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Careflight Flying More Ill Children News and events from CareFlight. Issue 61 | Autumn 2013 CareFlight flying more ill children ational aeromedical charity CareFlight is flying ill babies Nand children across NSW after being selected by the NSW Government to provide helicopter services to the Newborn and Paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS). Since New Year’s Eve, CareFlight has provided two helicopters to fly NETS medical teams to specialist hospitals in Newcastle and Sydney to bring intensive care treatment to sick babies and children. CareFlight is used for those missions which are time-critical and within a band from the outskirts of Sydney to approximately 500km away. The first mission for CareFlight was The NETS doctor and nurse place the newborn baby onboard CareFlight at Orange Base Hospital in the new to fly a NETS team to Orange to treat operation’s first mission. and stabilise a sick newborn infant. After stabilisation, the infant was transported 54-month contract has two pilots on board Colenbrander said. “In just the first two to the neonatal intensive care unit of a as well as a specialised doctor and nurse weeks from start-up we flew 15 missions Sydney hospital in a $300,000 mobile life team provided by NETS. The service is on and helped to save the lives of critically ill support system carried in the helicopter. call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. babies and children. Many, many more In a busy start to 2013 the new “CareFlight’s new service is fragile young lives will benefit this year operation flew babies and children from already making a huge difference,” Mr alone.” the Central West, Riverina, South and North Coast to specialist hospitals. At the same time CareFlight’s own rapid- response trauma service flew to injured Trauma training extends across Australia children on the Central Coast and across Over this year CareFlight will roll out educators will travel more than 40,000 Greater Sydney. our unique MediSim trauma training km of often dusty and sometimes CareFlight Chief Executive Officer program with 36 workshops around remote roads in this remarkable outreach Derek Colenbrander said CareFlight has Australia. program to deliver the courses at no cost a long history of providing aeromedical An estimated 500 emergency to participants. services for children. services personnel will be trained in In mid-April the MediSim, at the “The first two flights made by their local community at courses held request of park rangers, will be held for the CareFlight in July 1986 were to children in Tasmania, South Australia, Western first time in the NT’s popular Uluru and injured in a car crash near Lithgow who Australia, New South Wales, Victoria Kata Tjuta locations west of Alice Springs. were transported to hospital in Sydney,” and the Northern Territory. The training then will move north he said. CareFlight MediSim is a mobile to workshops scheduled at Borroloola, “That tradition continues today with medical simulation training program Katherine, Jabiru, Darwin, Dundee CareFlight flying to a large number of which is delivered to emergency service Beach, Gapuwiyak, Maningrida and at child trauma cases in Greater Sydney. officers in rural and remote communities two cattle stations. “Additionally CareFlight medi-jets are where they operate. The program From mid-May the MediSim program used to transport ill and injured children provides high quality trauma training will be held for the first time in Western across Australia, while we transport delivered by experts with many years of Australia’s vast north-west, at Kununurra, children through the Northern Territory experience in this demanding work. Fitzroy Crossing, Derby and Broome. Medical Retrieval Service which CareFlight Thanks to generous support from Then in June training will be delivered to operates for the NT Government.” companies, clubs, trusts and caring The operating helicopter under the individuals, the CareFlight trauma Continued on page 2... FOLLOW US ON CareFlight major 1 partners CareFlight MyCareFlight Community Festivals, shows, fetes and events irtually every weekend during Sussex Inlet Choppers weekend 2013 will have an event Three days of fun-filled family Vsomewhere across Australia community activities are lined up for involving CareFlight in a community – what is the best weekend you could hope helping to raise funds for our charity. for on the South Coast in late February. Over the past few months CareFlight It’s a whole-of-town involvement had a great involvement in events to raise funds for CareFlight, boosted including the Granville Family Festival, by sponsorship from Bendigo Bank and Wisemans Ferry’s 23rd Annual Police & Sussex Inlet RSL Club. Citizens Golf and Bowls Day, the Sydney Barefoot bowls with a sausage sizzle V8 Supercars, AvLaw Golf Cup, the NSW opens the event on Friday 22 February Sports Aircraft Club Open Day, Mercedes from 1.30 pm at the Sussex Inlet Club, Benz Concours d’Elegance, Cops and followed by a nine-hole golf challenge Rodders at Engadine, Hills Grammar the next day. For golfers and occasional School Fete, Land Rover Clubs Expo, players, this is a three-person Ambrose Blackmores Sydney Running Festival, event at the Golf Club starting at 9 am. Crestwood Fair, Festival of the Winds, A trivia night is in store at the RSL Club Bstreetsmart, Mindil Beach Markets, on the Saturday night from 7 pm, with cash Gove Peninsula Festival and regional prizes totalling a minimum of $650. shows held at Albury, Picton, Seymour, The big event takes over The Inlet Griffith, Temora, Wagga Wagga, Young, on Sunday 24 February. Variety stalls Top: Wisemans Ferry bowls action. Middle: Stands at Forbes, Parkes and West Wyalong. open from 9 am before the annual street the Festival of the Winds. Bottom: CareFlight Venture parade from 11 am. The parade features action. motor bikes, cars, emergency services including the town’s Rural Fire Service One-day 4WD wonder heroes, bands and floats. CareFlight is pleased to announce the For details call Graham Quinton One Day Wonder Tour Venture which on 0439 687 804. community engagement co-ordinator John Ebbott says is a great way to March bike ride for Todd experience what has made CareFlight To mark the tragic death of Harley Ventures so popular. Davidson’s national service manager “Many have said they’d love to Todd Peisley last year, his widow Nicole participate in a CareFlight Venture, but Peisley and CareFlight are holding a haven’t been able to take the day off charity motorbike ride from Homebush work to attend one of our three-day to Wisemans Ferry on Sunday 3 March. events,” John said. “Now we have the Todd died in Bali only three days after solution for you, the One Day Wonder Participants at a CareFlight MediSim training course. getting married. CareFlight International Tour Venture.” Air Ambulance flew to the island but The cost has been set at just $100 per MediSim goes unfortunately it was too late. car, and we will be having some special All proceeds of the event will go to activities. national CareFlight so we can keep saving more lives. Put Saturday 6 April in your calendar Continued from page 1... Please note club colours are not to be worn. now. More details and entries on our To find how to take part in this fantastic website. communities in the south-west of WA event, go to http://careflight.org/get_ at Bunbury, Albury, Norseman and the involved/events/ and follow the prompts. Woodford Classic in June goldfields town of Kalgoorlie. Now’s the time to mark this favourite in CareFlight MediSim co-ordinator CareFlight online shop your diary. Colin Brown said that by the end of CareFlight now has an online shop! This This year’s Woodford to Glenbrook 2013, CareFlight will have delivered is your opportunity to support a charity will be held on Sunday 30 June. Entrants almost 80 MediSim courses to over that saves lives, by purchasing CareFlight will run or ride 25 km of the Oaks 1,000 personnel in two and a half years. merchandise. Everything from our famous Fire Trail through the beautiful Blue “We run these workshops for bears to aircraft models, caps, mugs, Mountains National Park from the one very good reason – to continue umbrellas and more. To check it out go to town of Woodford down to the Euroka CareFlight’s 27 year objective to save http://careflightshop.com/main_menu/. Clearing near Glenbrook. lives in your community,” Mr Brown Around 1,000 participants are expected said. along with their families and supporters, in “Emergency service volunteers may For full details of upcoming this great day out for the whole family with be the first to arrive at a trauma scene events, check our website food stalls at the finishing line. 2 and their skill can make a difference.” at www.careflight.org Check our website for entry details. Missions Trauma skills save biker against all odds nly the swift and expert intervention of the team on ODarwin’s helicopter saved a young man in a remote field between property outstations 100 km south of Biker’s critical injuries The CareFlight doctor said the Darwin in October. A motor bike rider was critically injured 30-year-old man, from Hurstville, was The 19-year-old man rode his in a crash with a car at Engadine (photo dragged several metres down the road by motorbike at speed through a barb above) in November. the bus before becoming trapped in the wire fence near Batchelor, on the edge A CareFlight rapid-response critical wheel arch. of Litchfield National Park. care team landed to join ambulance The force tore the man’s neck paramedics, police, fire-rescue plus a Young boy hit by car open from ear to ear and he was near passing nurse and doctor treating the A young boy was seriously injured death when the team landed after a P1 patient.
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