European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes june 1985 medical teams aim for fast care by Judy Sarasohn staff writer Wiesbaden theres been an earthquake in the Mediterranean area and the injured possibly 50 people Are four hours flying time from a a Mobile Hospital could take 24 hours to re and some victims who could have been saved probably would but within two a team of 20 Doc nurses and other medical personnel from the air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden and the 2nd aeromedical evac so at re Finmain a has collected its operating equipment and is ready to Board a c i the earthquake thursday was a scenario that for the first time tested the flying ambulance surgical team there arc four teams the Only ones in the air Force at Wiesbaden Torrejon Spain in Ciurlik and Raf people from the bases that didst participate observed the Paul the team commander for the said the groups were established because of con Cerns that surfaced in 1983 about getting assistance to people injured in terrorist serious accidents or natural disasters in areas without sophisticated medical services or where facilities Are Over Bur three incidents provoked those con he said the bombing of the embassy in where Hospi Tal facilities were quickly overburdened a serious automobile Accident in Eastern and an explosion in niger that resulted in the deaths of two state depart ment employees before doctors could reach this is not the ultimate answer to eve but it is a step in the right direct said chief of the surgery department at the Wiesbaden its Meatball the goal of the whole team is to get a survivor to a fixed medical were not taking Johns Hopkins Hospital to the Carlton told the team to provide sophisticated emergency room services and still be highly the team does not carry shelter and is Able to provide services for Only 48 hours with out new the flying ambulance is a team normally made up of medical personnel on Call at the the Alert generally would come from the european come which owns the team As an asset to the Wiesbaden Hospital who begins the Alert of Hospital at Charles Hospital command ordered the command Post to mobilize the the team collected its operating room equipment and drugs and was ready to bus Over to Rhein main by 6 the major equipment is stored at the air at the the team met up with 2nd aeromedical evac so members and received the flown by the 37th tac Airlift didst take off until but that want because of a glitch in the Maffet he said the exercise was stretched out at that Point to allow for evaluation and once landed at the army Wiesbaden the equipment was taken off and the four doctors got Carlton and Wynn Deputy team com Mander and director of Hospital met with the ground army James Deputy installation and air Field to learn about the Dan locker and John Lockett went into the Field to attend victims who needed immediate the rest of the team came later after a that to try to keep confusion to a Carlton locker came across senior airman David Stubbs with serious Chest and Abdomen opening his cooler size trauma he got a Chest tube out and inserted it to ease Stubbs breathing and then tied pressure dressings on his hang in locker locker went on to another Brian youre going to he said and then turned to Lockett Hes going to need a Chest tube soon or Hes going to i didst have another by that the rest of the team had deployed and medics carried Cole to a triage area where Carlton inserted the the team went through the As Sessing providing emergency and taking patients to the operating room that members had set up in an army the operations appeared fairly with nurses and medics in Surgi Cal gowns walking through the procedures without making the actual they called for Cut off checked vital signs and applied electrical paddles when hearts Stubbs was lost during an opera pulling off his rubber gloves and Dan locker treats a simulated casualty after Landing in a throwing them into a garbage Carl ton you dont Salvage that Type of injured patient in a your Way Cole was saved in i Felt if it Ever came Down to they do a Good he Carlton said he was surprised How smoothly the exercise some minor equipment changes were found to be getting litters to the victims was but that was he be cause the team must be kept to a mini mum to retain sometimes Doc tors and nurses carried although Lockett found himself Short a Chest tube he said the trauma kit could not be expected to have More sup it was designed Only for emergency care until the entire team As it the kit was so tightly packed that it could not be easily closed up and carried to the next Hospital and 2nd aeromedical evac so personnel seemed to blend in Well As a team As people formed and reformed groups to assess new provide Ini tial operate and then get survivors to the plane for the Hospital plans to evaluate the exer Cise and develop a operations procedure for real fast Leader Paul a simulated casualty is placed on a Stretcher by members of