Posted in Retrievals on Oct 28th, 2008
A couple of posts have appeared on here now about my work for the RAH Mediflight Retrieval Service and I thought it was about time we covered what the job entails and why such a facility exists. Mediflight was founded in the mid-1970s to provide a means of transporting the critically unwell around South Australia. [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Oct 25th, 2008
As you can guess from the title (following a common theme – just search this blog to see the other “Back in the” postings) I have been in today on another Retrieval shift. It was another busy day with an early trip to Broken Hill, a small mining town over 500km from Adelaide, out in [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Sep 28th, 2008
Last night I had another shift with the Retrieval service. Saturday nights are characteristically busy, but I didn’t realise quite how much so. Shortly after starting the shift we received a call from Port Pirie, a costal town 225km north of Adelaide. Our customer was a middle-aged man who thought it would be a good [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Aug 5th, 2008
That’s right. I finally went out on a solo trip to retrieve a critical care patient back to Adelaide yesterday. Our destination was Waikerie, a small town in the Riverland about 200km northeast from Adelaide. The patient was a middle-aged man who had collapsed for no obvious reason, so needed to be taken to a [...]
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