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STARS Helicopter Taking off STARS Air Ambulance Interior. 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]
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.
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.
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 ...
CALSTAR was founded as a nonprofit public-benefit corporation in 1983 and began flight operations the following year using a leased BK 117 helicopter based at Peninsula Hospital in San Mateo, California. [2] In its first year, they flew 235 patients. By 2010, CALSTAR’s operations had increased to gain ten helicopters.
“The key with trauma care is to concentrate a large number of patients in the hands of a small number of physicians.” ... While medical helicopter crashes are statistically rare across the U.S
A movement to revolutionize the treatment of trauma patients in the U.S. can be ... Dr. John Holcomb was an Army trauma surgeon deployed to Somalia when two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down ...
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.