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Parkview Samaritan helicopter N711SM landing at Miami Valley Hospital

8/2/25

[titobeauvi]

Chris Hemsworth for SISU Sauna

[m00nb04rd5]

Can I have a moodboard for Charlotte La Bouff?

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Charlotte_La_Bouff

Charlotte LaBouff (The Princess And The Frog)

[hemsworthilovehim]

GET TO KNOW YOUR TUMBLR FRIENDS

Thanks for remembering me @beheworthy ,my sweetie.

I tag my best friend @commandohems

What’s the origin of your username? Cuz I really like Chris when I was 15 till now.

[frenchwingspot]

Landing of helismur28 closer to the SAMU for a demonstration

[officialnattie2]

[scriptmedic]

Hello Aunt Scripty! It's so nice to see you back! I have a question - so, helicopters are loud, right? I know that usually pilots and passengers wear noise-cancelling headphones to avoid damaging their ears, so, how does it work with patients being transported by helicopter too? Especially patients who might have a head injury like a TMI, do they get any special sort of headphones as well? Or are those types of medical-transport helicopters designed to be more soundproof from the inside or anything like that?

Hey nonny!

Yes, helicopters are SUPER loud! HEMS (Helicopter EMS) birds tend to be on the beefy side, too. And unfortunately, soundproofing is VERY heavy, and the biggest restriction in HEMS is weight, so they tend to not be as well insulated as you would hope.

The ear protectors worn by pilots and crew aren't technically noise cancelling*, they're just sound-deadening. But it would be a real cruelty to let patients experience that level of noise!

Patients are given ear protectors, but they're also given eye protectors in the form of very dark glasses! Why? Because sunlight filtering through rotor blades can be a seizure trigger, even in patients with no known seizure history.

So your character would be placed on a stretcher, strapped in snugly, have ear and eye protectors put on, and be loaded into the bird.

The one thing they can't compensate for, though, is vibration. Helicopters shake. Helicopters shake enough that vibration is considered a major risk factor for exhaustion.

Thanks for your ask! I'm a board certified flight medic (though I've never actually flown), so HEMS is an area I can be very helpful with.

Good luck!

xoxo, Aunt Scripty