Testimonials

Finger prints—as unique and individual as each one of us.

I always say “you never really leave AIRLIFE;” a piece of it goes with you wherever you go and a piece of you, your fingerprints, stay with us here forever too whether you were here a day or hundreds, whether you fly or not. Your bright ideas transferred to your hands through your hearts and if you look closely at us today, you will see your fingerprints somewhere.
- Jana Williams, Program Director

Patient Testimonials

In March 2009, Juan was working at his job on a construction site in Douglas County when he was struck by the bucket portion of a backhoe which had fallen from 20 feet overhead. Juan was pinned beneath the bucket in the trench, crushed beneath its weight of 800 pounds.

AirLife Denver was dispatched to the scene with two RNs - Jan Schafersman and Anne Ford - ready to respond to Juan's trauma. After Juan was extricated from the trench via the skilled efforts of South Metro Fire personnel, Jan and Anne were able to assess Juan's injuries and prepare him for his emergency transport to Swedish Medical Center. Throughout the flight, Juan recalled the nurses' attempts to keep him talking to maintain consciousness. He also remembers thinking about his wife and his son.

Juan's wife, Zuledh, was notified of her husband's accident and transport to Swedish. Upon reaching the ER, Zuledh was unable to find Juan in his room. Before she had time to panic, AirLife flight nurse Jan quickly briefed Zuledh about her husband's accident, transport, and current treatment.

Juan is now out of the hospital and was even able to attend the 12th Annual AirLife Memorial Run at Hudson Gardens with his wife and family in June 2009. Juan's incident and progressive recovery serve as an excellent reminder to AirLife that our efforts affect not just our patients but also their families. AirLife is thankful for Juan's successful recovery, and for the collaborative efforts of South Metro Fire and Swedish Medical Center in making his story a happy one!

Professional Testimonials

On July 8, 2009, Airlife, in coordination with Littleton Fire Rescue, transported a critical patient from a bike accident. The patient fell from his bike and had critical injuries; flail chest, to include 8 rib fractures, clavicle with a subsequent hemo/pneumothorax; pneumo-mediastinum, middle and lower lobe pulmonary contusions. A chest tube was inserted in the emergency room at Swedish Hospital. He was admitted to the ICU where an epidural catheter was inserted to control his pain. As of July 13th, 2009 he had been transferred to MTU and had discharge plans for the next day or so. Airlife's crew compliments LFR for their professionalism, great care, air to ground communication and landing sone coordination.

On July 9, 2009, in coordination with Littleton Rescue, AirLife transported a critical patient with chest pain from Chatfield State Park. The patient was fishing with his wife at Chatfield reservoir when he began experiencing acute chest pain. LFR crews rapidly arrived on scene and treated him with O2, IV, ASA, Morphine sulfate, zofran, NTG as well as a 12 lead EKG. The flight crew involved with this transport commented how impressed they were with the LFR staff. They stated they were very prepared and professional and rapidly packaged the patient for transport. The AirLife crew activated a Cardiac Alert from the scene.

Upon arrival to Swedish, the patient was taken to the cath lab. Enroute he dropped his BP, and had episodes of V tach. He required vasopressors temporarily until a stent was successfully placed.

The door to balloon time on this patient was 30 minutes with a door to "open vessel" time of 40 minutes. He had a totally occluded LAD and had a sucessful outcome.

Visit "What's Hot in the EMS?" for the original stories. AirLife is proud to serve with Littleton Fire, as well as other emergency responders in our surrounding communities, in our coordinated life saving efforts.