Seeing a medical helicopter land in your community usually comes with a sense of dread and anxiety over what may have happened. But, if you live in Louisburg and saw the copter land on Tuesday, no worries. The Louisburg Fire Department, a team from American Medical Response, a Linn county ambulance service in Pleasanton, and the life star 3 crew performed a timed trial training run with the life star medical helicopter. According to the Miami county republic, in the training exercise, the Linn county crew rushed a pediatric trauma mock “victim” by ground ambulance to Louisburg to transfer to the life star 3 air ambulance.
According to a city news release, Louisburg fire chief Gerald Rittinghouse says the training provides the three agencies an opportunity to practice in the event of an actual emergency. He says transporting a victim in a coordinated effort like the one Tuesday can trim as much as 30 minutes or more in getting a patient to a hospital.
