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Recognizing the Need for Air Medical Transport
Tulsa Life Flight (TLF) can be requested by any first response agency (i.e., police departments, fire departments, EMS, industrial response teams)
The general guidelines for patients needing air medical transport are:
- Multi-system trauma or penetrating trauma with unstable vital signs, such as a
systolic blood pressure of less than 90 mmHg.
- Respiratory compromise with a rate of less than 10 or greater than 29.
- Glasgow Coma Score of less than 14.
Some time dependent injuries and illnesses can also require air transport, such as:
- Penetrating injury to the neck, head, torso or groin
- Combination of burns greater than 20% or involving the face, hands, feet or
genitalia
- Amputation above the wrist or ankle
- Paralysis
- Flail chest
- Two or more proximal long bone fractures
- Open, or suspected depressed, skull fracture
- Unstable or suspected pelvic fracture
- Near drowning
- Abdominal or thoracic aneurysm
- Acute intracranial bleed
- Status asthmaticus
- Croup/epiglottitis
- Cardiogenic shock
- Post cardiac arrest
- Acute myocardial infarction
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