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The Air Ambulance Service (TAAS) is a registered charity in the UK that runs two emergency air ambulances, the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance and the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance. It also operates the national Children's Air Ambulance, which provides an emergency transfer service for seriously ill babies and children. The charity is a member of the Association of Air Ambulances. ==Operations== TAAS runs three services, two are emergency helicopters covering Warwickshire, Northamptonsire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland and the third is the Children's Air Ambulance that covers England and provides an emergency transfer service for seriously ill babies and children. The Children’s Air Ambulance has also completed a number of missions to Wales and Scotland. Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance and the Children’s Air Ambulance are operated from Coventry Airport, while Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance is operated from East Midlands Airport. The charity leases three helicopters from Sloane Helicopters;〔http://www.sloanehelicopters.com/flight_operations/emergency_medical_services〕 one for each service. The helicopters the charity uses are all AgustaWestland AW109, which can reach a maximum speed of about 185 mph, and are regarded as one of the fastest available civilian helicopters. The Children’s Air Ambulance can reach anywhere in the UK within two hours, and can reach all of the UK’s specialist children’s units within 70 minutes. Both children and clinical teams are moved using the AW109 helicopter, which is always flown with two pilots. The clinical teams usually consist of a paediatrician and a specialist nurse. Children are transported in a bespoke stretcher (certified for flight), which was designed and built in partnership with consultant paediatricians and transport nurses. No specialised stretcher for paediatric helicopter transfer existed at the time. It was nicknamed ‘Shrek’ due to the green colour of the first one produced. ‘Shrek’ can carry a baby up to 8 kg being in a specialist ‘baby pod’, or facilitate larger babies and children on the stretcher mattress. The stretcher design allows for the equipment needed for paediatric intensive care to be secure and easily operated, whether in flight or on the ground. If children are too ill to travel, the Children’s Air Ambulance will transfer specialists from one of their clinical partner teams to a local hospital. It is not a helicopter emergency medical service, which go to the scenes of medical emergencies and trauma for pre-hospital intervention, but rather an inter-hospital emergency transfer service. The service currently works with six NHS clinical partner teams across the country. Working alongside a key clinical partner, the service has achieved accreditation with the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, a recognised international standard for safety, quality and governance. All three of the services the charity operates are registered with the Care Quality Commission. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Air Ambulance Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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