| 词条 | Wales Air Ambulance |
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| logo = | logo_size = 300px | headquarters = Llanelli, Wales | key_people = Angela Hughes - CEO | name = Wales Air Ambulance Charity | abbreviation = WAAC | website = www.walesairambulance.com | region = Wales }}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}}The Wales Air Ambulance Charity (WAAC) is a Charity Air Ambulance service providing a free, life-saving Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) for the critically ill and injured of the UK and Wales. It is not funded by the NHS – but only by charitable donations from the UK. It also provides the Children's Air Ambulance Wales emergency transfer service.[1] The charity aims to save lives, reduce or prevent disability or suffering from critical illness and injury, by delivering a pre-hospital emergency medical service. ServiceThe service has four helicopters and medical crews stationed at Caernarfon, Welshpool, Llanelli and Cardiff. The HEMS team are capable of reaching a critically ill patient anywhere in Wales within 20 minutes of receiving a call. Each helicopter team consists of a pilot and two medics, typically a doctor and critical care practitioner, or two critical care practitioners.[2] The Children's Air Ambulance Wales operates from Cardiff, taking children on urgent inter-hospital transfers to specialist paedeatric and neonatal hospitals in the UK - including Alder Hey and Great Ormond Street.[1] The charity's Critical Care Practitioners (nurses and paramedics) and Doctors are seconded from EMRTS Cymru.[3] Pilots are provided by the charity's aviation partner, Babcock. The specialist staff can provide a range of critical care interventions, previously only found in hospitals, at the roadside, reducing the time taken for lifesaving care to take place. This includes giving a general anaesthetic to patients, providing sedation for painful procedures and undertaking critical surgical procedures. All vehicle platforms carry a range of equipment to facilitate this including monitoring, high level portable ventilator and specialist transfer equipment. More recently, the service has commenced carrying blood products. This includes red blood cells for transfusion to bleeding patients, as well as freeze-dried plasma and fibrinogen to help with clotting and monitors and drugs to help reverse bleeding in patients who are on blood thinning medicine (warfarin) in an emergency situation. FleetThree of the aircraft operating for the charity are Airbus Helicopters H145 The Llanelli based H145 aircraft G-WENU has callsign Helimed 57, Welshpool (G-WORL) is Helimed 59, while the Caernarfon based aircraft has callsign Helimed 61. There is also a Eurocopter EC135 based in Cardiff as the Children's Air Ambulance.[1] This aircraft is staffed by two pilots and a specialist Helicopter Transfer Practitioner, or HTP (nurse, paramedic or ODP with additional training in critical care and transfer medicine). The service also works with local neonatal and paediatric specialist retrieval teams who join the crew when appropriate. This 135 aircraft (G-WASC, callsign Helimed 67) has specialist equipment and can be fitted with purpose designed equipment for transfer of young children and neonates, including a transport incubator. All helicopters are owned by Babcock Mission Critical Services Onshore, who also provide the pilots, base engineers and maintenance for the aircraft. The three H145 aircraft are all equipped for night vision goggle (NVG) operations and have additional lighting fitted for operation in darkness. At present the aircraft operate (weather dependent) from 08.00-20.00 7 days a week. In addition to the four aircraft, the charity runs five rapid response vehicles (RRV), spread across their four bases. These are adapted Audi Q7 with full audio and visual warning systems that carry the same standard equipment as the aircraft and are utilised if the aircraft is offline (for example due to weather conditions) or as an additional responding resource. References1. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=http://www.walesairambulance.com/childrens-ambulance.php|title=National Children's Air Ambulance {{!}} Wales Air Ambulance|last=Picseli|website=www.walesairambulance.com|access-date=2018-03-02}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesairambulance.com/flying-doctors.php|title=Welsh Flying Medics {{!}} Wales Air Ambulance|last=Picseli|website=www.walesairambulance.com|access-date=2018-03-02}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.emrts.cymru/faqs|title=EMRTS Wales - Welsh Flying Medics|website=EMRTS Wales - Welsh Flying Medics|language=en|access-date=2018-03-02}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesairambulance.com/news.php?s=2017-07-07-wales-air-ambulance-completes-helicopter-fleet-upgrade|title=Latest News {{!}} Wales Air Ambulance|last=SemiColonWeb|website=www.walesairambulance.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-22}} 2 : Charities based in Wales|Health in Wales |
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