REVA Performs Air-Ambulance Transfer Drill With Air National Guard

REVA, Inc., the largest dedicated, fixed-wing, aero-medical services provider in the Americas, last week participated in Empire Strike, a highly successful two-day medical-evacuation training exercise with the Air National Guard at Schenectady County Airport (SCH) where REVA’s northeast base resides. With the help of REVA’s Human Patient Simulator as a mock patient, the Air National Guard and REVA critical-care medical teams practiced unloading the “patient” from the Guard’s C-130 personnel carrier then transferring and loading “him” onto the Learjet 35A air-ambulance for a “wing-to-wing” transfer with REVA. The cooperative training exercise resulted from a year-long design effort by Air National Guard Captain, Stephen Hallenbeck, the lead exercise planner of the 139th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron of the 109th Airlift Wing in New York. Hallenbeck, also a critical-care RN at REVA, said, “This exercise was a great success and the biggest to date. A highlight was the interaction between the Guard and REVA critical-care medical teams, the first time a commercial air-ambulance company was involved.” This success was further enabled by the assistance of Robbie MacCue, the REVA Field Training Officer at SCH. Mr. MacCue supported the planning effort and the REVA Medical Team involvement. “It was a unique and invaluable opportunity to build real-time, real-world experiences and a more definitive plan for responding to actual natural disasters,” ad...
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