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'Airborne ICU' for Covid-19 patient

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The Air Corps has described its first aeromedical transfer of an ICU patient with Covid-19 as a "significant milestone". The patient was moved by helicopter from a hospital in the southwest to Dublin at the weekend.

The Air Corps says it was tasked by the HSE to move the patient because of "hospital capacity issues". A critical care retrieval team from the Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Service (MICAS) joined two Air Corps pilots and a medically trained crewman on the flight.

Commandant Stephen Byrne said: "It was an airborne ICU. On the night we transported a critical care doctor and a critical care paramedic from the National Ambulance Service.

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