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/ NEWS / WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
SAFETY
Move over, Batman: There are real heroes in the sky
BY ALLYSON SHAW
ashaw@kansan.com
Two or three times a day, the engine roars, the rotor turns and the medical crew prepares for lift off.
The LifeStar helicopter based at the Lawrence Municipal Airport must be ready to transfer an injured resident to a trauma center at a moment's notice.
Last month the helicopter was dispatched to a bike accident near the intersection of Crestline Drive and Bob Billings Parkway. But an ambulance took the patient to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the helicopter flew back to base empty.
Chelsey Derks, a junior from Olathe, said, "I've wondered where the money for the helicopter comes from. I see it flying around Lawrence and it just seems like we don't need a helicopter for such a small city"
But, Hildenbrand said, insurance pays for most of it. LifeStar rarely ends up collecting more than half of the charge.
LifeStar is a not-for-profit corporation owned by two Topeka hospitals. Greg Hildenbrand, the LifeStar executive director, said that if someone is transported in the helicopter, then that person is responsible for about $10,000.
Hildenbrand said it is extremely expensive just to maintain the helicopter, not counting the cost of gas. He said one helicopter costs about $3 million to purchase.
The helicopter does not take patients to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said Hildenbrand.
which the helicopter is called to the scene of an accident and the patient is taken to a hospital with a trauma center.
"It takes the helicopter about six or seven minutes to get off the ground and then it takes some time to get to the scene," Hildenbrand said. "If a patient is going to Lawrence
Life Star flight paramedic Mark Larson shows where a patient lays inside of the helicopter. Life Star of Kansas has one helicopter it uses for medical emergencies. It has been serving Kansas since 1988.
"It's very prestigious, everyone in the nursing field kind of looks up to this job."
Because Lawrence Memorial Hospital does not have a trauma center and is not equipped to handle orthopedic or head injuries, patients with those injuries are sent to hospitals in Topeka or Kansas City. The helicopter will pick up patients within a 150-mile radius of
Memorial then it is just faster to use a ground ambulance"
BRIAN POPE
LifeStar flight nurse
its base.
The helicopter flies two types of transfers. The first is an interhospital transfer in which a doctor calls for the helicopter and sends the patient to a different hospital. The second is a scene transfer in
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Flight Nurse Brian Pope has worked for LifeStar since 1996, covering two 24-hour shifts a week. He said that about 70 percent of the calls he sees are
inter-hospital transfers.
In the case of last month's bike crash, the helicopter was called to the scene of the bike accident because the patient's injuries were thought to be worse than they were. Since the patient did not ride in the helicopter, he did not have to pay a
fee, Pope said.
Although Pope works a second job in the emergency room of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital, he said his job with LifeStar is the best
nursing job that could be had.
"It's very prestigious, everyone in the nursing field kind of looks up to this job." Pope said. "It gets you out of the hospital and you get to do lots
of different procedures on patients as a nurse that you couldn't do in a hospital"
Edited by Emily McCoy
Unbe-weave-able
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Nell Gosl, Prof senior, works on a scarf in the Ar. and Design building Tuesday afternoon. "The scarf is made from all natural dyed yarn," Goss said. The dyes are made from osage-orange bark, acorns, avacado peels, onion skin, and yamba tea bag. It is made for the crafts sale at the end of November.
NATIONAL
Pet-friendly housing opens at university
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
ORLANDO, Fla. Jasmine Parham's new college roommate is a dear friend from back home.
The roomie responds to "Leo"
and never goes to class, but can
perform some neat tricks.
Leonora, a frisky border collie, and her owner, Parham, are among the first residents of the first pet-friendly dorm at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla.
About 20 students and their pets — dogs, cats and a few caged gerbils and rats — are taking up residence at Nemec Hall, an established dorm, as the fall semester begins this week.
Stetson is not the first college to have a pet-friendly dorm, but it's among the relatively few schools — perhaps a dozen or so across the country — that have formal policies and accommodations. Stetson officials
say the dorms could become a recruitment tool that helps set the school apart, just as big schools such as the University of Central Florida entice students with football stadiums, basketball arenas and trendy eateries.
The idea behind the dorm is to give students — freshmen, in particular — a familiar presence as they make the sometimes stressful transition from home to campus.
"What better way to do that than to have a family friend there to greet you when you get out of class?" said Justin Williams, the university's director of housing and residential life.
Having a pet along for the college journey makes a dorm "a home away from home," he said.
Parham, a freshman from Palm Coast, Fla., agrees.
"I love having my best friend here with me," Parham said.
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