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Girl Scouts learn about emergency and critical-care air medicine

 

August 25, 2005
Thursday


Ketchikan, Alaska - Wednesday, Guardian Flight, Inc provided the Girl Scouts of America, Camp Featherwinds, with an educational session about emergency and critical-care air medicine.


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Critical-Care Flight Nurses, Michele Faust and Rachel Welk (right)
Photograph courtesy Guardian Flight


Two of the Ketchikan based Critical-Care Flight Nurses, Michele Faust and Rachel Welk, spent an hour with the girls from Camp Featherwinds. Michele and Rachel discussed the flight environment, what it is like to help sick people while flying in a Lear Jet or on a helicopter; and provided some of their supplies to demonstrate bandaging and dressing wounds.

The flight nurses also discussed safety at home, such as ensuring that the girls always wore helmets and safety pads while riding bicycles or playing sports. Also discussed was home fire safety, the importance of a home smoke detectors, and fire extinguishers.

The staff of Guardian Flight say they are available to address other groups. If you are interested, call (907) 247-6100.

 

 

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