Activity

Hello, everyone.

Today, I am going to about activity of the doctor helicopter. I am not good at English. Therefore, I may use sometimes wrong English. But I do my best!

This time, I am going to write about two talks of a doctor helicopter which played an active part.

【The doctor helicopter which saved the young life】

On January 2, 2008, a then 3-year-old boy fell in the pond accidentally in the town in eastern Aichi. When a father rescued a son, the accident in which it was already in the cardiopulmonary arrest state occurred. The boy's aunt demanded the ambulance.

And the boy's family had given heart-and-lungs revival with the directions by fire-fighting headquarters. The ambulance arrived soon. The ambulance officer guessed having fallen into a serious condition. And the ambulance officer requested mobilization of the doctor helicopter from fire-fighting headquarters. However, since it was already mobilized by another patient's generating, the doctor helicopter in Aichi was not able to be demanded. Therefore, fire-fighting headquarters requested mobilization of the doctor helicopter from SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL of Shizuoka Prefecture. The boy was rode on the ambulance. Then, it was accommodated in the doctor helicopter from the rendezvous point which is a junction with a doctor helicopter. And the boy was carried to the prefectural child hospital in Shizuoka, and he survived. Mostly, there are many cases of carry to a base hospital by dispatch into territory. However, this was dispatched to the "another prefecture" and was carried in "the hospital which is not a base hospital." This is the precious case from which it succeeded in delivery of the baton of a life, and saved the human life.

 

【Great East Japan Earthquake】

In the Great East Japan Earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, DMAT and doctor helicopters from the whole country gathered to the base. Patient conveyance made Hanamaki Airport the base and was performed from the large stricken area over three months. It played an active part in the stricken area where the trunk road was cut off by tsunami or an earthquake as a means by which a patient can be carried from sky.

The doctor helicopter saved the life.
The boy who was in the hospital of Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi was carried to Shizuoka Children's Hospital of Shizuoka by the doctor helicopter.
This newborn infant is holding heavy cardiopathy and it was not able to take a thoroughgoing medical treatment attitude in a stricken area. Condition was stable although the boy did not allow prejudgment. The doctor helicopter of Shizuoka Prefecture (SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL) was mobilized. It was eager work in the inside where a tsunami warning sounds. Dr. Hiroshi Machida dispatched from Maebashi Red Cross Hospital of Gumma Prefecture as a disaster relief medical team "DMAT" told. They strove for the rescue of the patient from a city hospital destroyed from tsunami in Ishinomaki-city, Miyagi. The DMAT member of 29 and eight hospitals and seven doctor helicopters carried the patient who exceeds 100 persons.The Self-Defense-Forces helicopter was also added behind and rescue lasted midnight.

 

The above is activity of some doctor helicopters. I am glad, if you read this and get interested in a doctor helicopter.

I am going to talk about problem of the doctor helicopter next time. See you, next time.