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Hospital Wing Helicopters Carrying Blood

Hospital Wing, a non-profit air ambulance operating in West Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama, and Kentucky, started carrying packed red blood cells (PRBCs) and liquid plasma (LP) in their EC130/H130 helicopters





Hospital Wing Helicopters Carrying Blood
Hospital Wing, December 16, 2019 - Hospital Wing is pleased to announced that it is now carrying packed red blood cells (PRBCs) and liquid plasma (LP) at every base location.

This added clinical capability will allow its clinicians to better resuscitate patients in hemorrhagic shock and will be on every patient flight.

This has multiple implications in not only Hospital Wing’s trauma patient populations, but also in several medical patient populations.

Coupling blood products with the early identification capabilities of ultrasound will allow its clinicians to perform at the optimal level. Producing the best possible patient outcomes is Hospital Wing’s ultimate goal.

Hospital Wing has been an integral part of pre-hospital/interfacility critical care medicine, serving the mid-south for over 33 years and has always been a well-known leader in the helicopter air ambulance industry, operating the best aircraft and offering the best clinical services available.

A crucial part of the continuity of success in any business is innovation and providing the best services available. Hospital Wing is eager to continue exceeding the standards of critical care transport medicine.

Hospital Wing continues to serve the mid-south at several locations that include Memphis, Tennessee; Oxford, Mississippi; Brownsville, Tennessee; Selmer, Tennessee; and Jonesboro, Arkansas.

About Hospital Wing: The Wing” is a non-profit air medical transport which provides inter-hospital transfers as well as emergency scene calls within 250 mile radius of Memphis. This area includes West Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama, and Kentucky.

Hospital Wing owns 7 helicopters equipped to transport critically ill and injured patients. Six helicopters are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week and one helicopter is available for PediFlite.

“The Wing” transports an average of 250 patients per month with 60% of these being trauma related. Scene flights account for approximately 35% of these transports.

Hospital Wing Helicopters Carrying Blood





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