Check presentation pictured from left to right: Mark Longerbeam, flight paramedic; Nick Cooper, flight nurse; Teresa McCabe, WVUH-East vice president marketing and development; Autumn Davis, chief flight nurse; Susan Snowden, chairman City Hospital Foundation board of directors; and Donnie Grubb, trauma coordinator at City Hospital.
West Virginia University Hospitals-East ‘s City Hospital Foundation recently donated $10,000 to HealthNet VIII to purchase a GlideScope for the Martinsburg based air ambulance helicopter.
The GlideScope is a device used by flight nurses and paramedics to insert breathing tubes in patients who have suffered severe trauma, or to treat patients who have a difficult airway and are not breathing on their own. This video scope has a high resolution digital camera that is connected to a high resolution LCD monitor which assists the flight staff in establishing an airway.
HealthNet VIII is one of the first aircrafts in the tri-state area to place this device in service. This state-of-the-art equipment will allow WVUH-East and HealthNet to better serve the community by giving the flight staff cutting edge technology for use in the field with no delays.
