PennSTAR Flight
PennSTAR Flight, the 24-hour
emergency air medical transport
service of the Division of
Traumatology and Surgical Critical
Care at University of Pennsylvania
Health System, provides safe,
efficient service from any hospital
within 150 miles of Philadelphia
for patients requiring emergency
surgery in a wide variety of
therapeutic areas.
More facts about PennSTAR:
- PennSTAR has served
more than
10,000 critical care patients since its
inception in 1988
- Each year, PennSTAR receives
more
than 4,000 requests for service
- The circumference
of PennSTAR
Flight encompasses five states
- PennSTAR employs
Medical
Command Physicians from
anesthesia, pulmonary critical care,
internal medicine, hyperbaric and
emergency medicine
The majority of PennSTAR Transportations
for cardiovascular surgical services
were for patients needing complex,
high-risk surgeries. |
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