i just cant imagine being the pilot. your in a fighter on a mission to save 1 mans life. you take off and go full throttle trying to make up time any way possible. that would have been an amazing flight. i wish we would use the air force to do stuff like this more often.

As someone who works in US hospitals let me say. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I have worked in hospitals whose top of the line equipment is from the 80's. Expensive health care does not mean that all hospitals that have all the equipment they need. And the for profit nature means rural and low income areas often don’t…

Are you kidding? There is a reason so many hospitals have helipads now. Outside of major urban areas, hospitals just aren’t equipped to deal with a range of situations. In these cases they serve just to stabilize patients as much as possible before an air ambulance transports them to a hospital with the necessary…

No, they wouldn’t. When talking about the US, we are talking about a large country the size of a half of a continent. Not every hospital is well equipped or staffed, as there are some quite shitty areas in the US (without being specific to insult anyone).

Awww how cute. All american hospitals are loaded with equipment and accessible via a straight, well paved road at any given time. There are unicorns at every street corner, too.

Well, first off, this i pretty far north, and sparsely populated. Secondly, Tromsø, (not Bodø, as erroneously stated in the article) has two such ECMO machines. Both were in use the day in question.

Like the story not so long ago about the Zumwalt rescuing a fishing boat, it’s nice when weapons of destruction unexpectedly lend a hand saving lives.

That’s not true at all. Even in NY’s decent hospitals, different facilities have different equipment and will sometimes send patients to different facilities.

And a hospital here would laugh in your face if you asked to borrow it and take it 10 hours away.

No, the hospital across the street from the hospital where the patient is would have had the equipment, but the patient would not have been able to go there because it was outside of his network.

COTD

Ya, no. ECMO machines are rare even at hospitals here.

Agreed; ICU Doc here and we can’t get ECMO setup in an ICU room if we wanted to, and the machine is 2 floors down from the ICU...

Really? So you think that all hospitals everywhere in the US have ECMO machines? You’d be lucky to find qualified medical personnel in certain areas of the US, not to mention the proper equipment....

That’s absolutely not the case for most of rural America.

“On the way back to base, the life saving pilot strafed the tower in what is now a pound tradition among Norweigan F-16 pilots”

I hope she stands near a mustang at the next cars and coffee.

Are you kidding me with this woman? Fuck people like this. That is absolutely unacceptable not only as a parent, but as a decent human being. I hope she stands near a mustang at the next cars and coffee.

Lessee... 280 miles divided by 25 minutes is 11.2 miles traveled per minute. 11.2 times 60 gives us 672mph.