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The Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS, formerly Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society) is a Canadian non-profit helicopter air ambulance organization funded by individual donors, service groups, corporate donors and government contributions. [1]
The helipad at Shock Trauma can accommodate up to four medevac helicopters at one time and has direct elevator access to the resuscitation area several stories below. Adjacent to the TRU is a vast array of equipment and facilities that are immediately available to the patient in extremis.
Calstar (California Shock Trauma Air Rescue) is a nonprofit regional air ambulance company serving California and northern Nevada. CareFlite – a 501c not-for-profit that is based in Dallas Texas area and sponsored by Baylor Scott & White Hospitals, Parkland Hospital, THR hospitals, JPS Hospital, and Methodist Hospitals.
Knowing that helicopters were by far the most efficient means of moving severely ill or injured patients, he created a nonprofit organization, Shock Trauma Air Rescue Services Foundation, to provide helicopter rescue and transport in and around Calgary. The local Lions Club provided seed money.
R Adams Cowley (July 25, 1917 – October 27, 1991) was an American surgeon considered a pioneer in emergency medicine and the treatment of shock trauma. [1] Called the "Father of Trauma Medicine", [2] he was the founder of the United States' first trauma center at the University of Maryland in 1958, after the United States Army awarded him $100,000 to study the effects of shock in wounded ...
Trauma is the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. for people between the ages of 1 and 45. Numerous medical studies conclude that no other single intervention has a greater impact on survival than a ...
Of the 14 helicopter mishaps, 12 occurred during training flights. 2024 "will be a year that Army Aviation looks back on in hopes of never repeating," this month's issue of Flightfax, an Army ...
Travis County STAR (Shock Trauma Air Rescue) Flight began in 1985 as a joint program involving Travis County, the City of Austin, and Brackenridge Hospital.The first aircraft used by STAR Flight was a Bell 206B, later replaced with a Bell 206L3.