On-Site Hospital Helipads: Resource Document for the NAEMSP Position Paper on On-Site Hospital Helipads

Thomas, Stephen

doi:10.1080/10903120902731077

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“…It is acknowledged that helipad placement decisions are informed by non-patient care issues and a paucity of research. Nevertheless, when the choice is viewed from a patient care perspective, there is a clear preference for on-site helipad location [2]. Various issues of air transport for medicine have also been explored in articles I. Blumen [7], A. Evans, E. Winslow [8], E. Lerner, A. Billittier [9], S. Silliman, B. Quinn, V. Huggett, J. Merino [10] etc.…”

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Architecture of Air Transport Medicine Facilities

Bulakh¹,

Semyroz²,

Kysil³

et al. 2022

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The article is devoted to the study of the organization of air medicine and the architectural design of helipads in hospitals located in an urban environment. Also, the article has an attempt to draw public attention to the inevitable development of air medical aviation as a new and promising type of emergency medical transport in dense urban areas, which, in the processes of urbanization, will be aggravated by blocking the possibility of automobile movement in the city. The purpose of the article is to analyze the main problems and difficulties that accompany the design and operation of medical helipads in an urban environment, as well as to propose and systematize the main features and parameters that must be considered when designing helipads in hospitals. Methodology: the study consists of a systematic, and comprehensive analysis of the problems of architectural design of hospital helipads. The study used the analysis of literary, normative, informational sources, graphic-analytical methods, photographs and field research. The research methodology consists of a set of methods of practical, theoretical, empirical, retrospective and factor analysis. Conclusions: when designing a heliport in a hospital, it is essential to provide the shortest and safest route for a patient to the intensive care unit or operating room. Helipads for medical use are best located directly on the hospital grounds (on the roof of a hospital building or outbuilding, on the ground). It is also necessary to take into account the presence of a network of public heliports, which will create the possibility of landing and takeoff of medical helicopters in different parts of the urban space.

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Architecture of Air Transport Medicine Facilities

Bulakh¹,

Semyroz²,

Kysil³

et al. 2022

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“…This necessitated additional transportation from the ICU to the helicopter landing site. Not only the total transport time increases, but also the risk on adverse effects [ 3 ].…”

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An Approved Landing Site (ALS) improves the logistics of interhospital transfer of critically ill patients by helicopter

Geffen

Spoelder

Tijben³

et al. 2021

Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med

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The COVID-19 pandemic limited hospital resources and necessitated interhospital transport of ICU-patients in order to provide critical care to all patients in the Netherlands. However, not all hospitals have an approved landing site. The ICU-transport operation was executed under HEMS-license and landing on non-aerodrome terrain was permitted. This allowed the search for an ad-hoc landing site in the direct vicinity of the ICU. The following characteristics were judged: slope, obstacles, size, soil conditions and the presence of foreign objects.Before the start of this transport operation, in two days, all hospitals in the Netherlands were visited and presumed landing sites explored, described, photographed and recorded in the electronic flight bag. At 71 (87,6 %) of the hospitals it was possible to install a temporary approved landing site in the direct vicinity of the ICU. 110 landings were made on these landing sites and 114 landings on approved heliports. Only 11 patients required secondary transport to or from the helicopter landings site. This occurred only in two patients from a heliport to a receiving hospital.The construction of pre-explored approved landing sites in the vicinity of hospitals allows safe transportation of patients by helicopter to hospitals without a heliport.

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