Attendees at the Miami Beach Air and Sea Show were a little bit safer this year, thanks to the Florida International University Advanced Surgical Transport team (FIU-FAST), and their 10-bed Western Shelter critical care hospital.
Western Shelter is kicking of the summer season with an exceptional cargo trailer offer. Order in the next 30 days and you will get a limited time price, along with a free AC unit to keep your trailer cool through the hot months ahead.
During a recent field exercise the Costa Rica Type 1 EMT took 360 degree photos of their Western Shelter facility to serve as a virtual tour. We couldn't have asked for a better way to show off our equipment in a deployed state.
In April of 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 people and injuring 22,000 more. The earthquake's impact was compounded by Nepal's mountainous and rural nature, making aid delivery extremely difficult...
Our shelters were in the news again, this time for a National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) training in Alabama. The video provides an excellent example of what our shelters look like fully deployed, and how they would be used in a disaster response scenario.
We made the news in Costa Rica! One of our field hospitals was deployed so that it could be certified as an EMT-1 (Emergency Medical Team; level 1) facility by the Pan American Health Organization. EMT-1 hospitals perform critical outpatient medical care in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.