Articles for tag EC-135 helicopter
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Sep
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2025
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With no fewer than 12,000 calls per year, the familiar yellow trauma helicopters are a frequent site in the Netherlands’ skies. Onboard is a Mobile Medical Team (MMT), consisting of a pilot, a doctor, and a paramedic, racing to any medical emergency where seconds count.
Although we’ve become accustomed to helicopters responding to serious accidents, this form of emergency medical service is still relatively new in the Netherlands. In Germany, however, doctors were already sounding the alarm in the late 1960s due to a rapidly increasing number of traffic fatalities. To improve survival chances, it was essential not only to reach accident scenes more quickly but also to transport patients to trauma centers faster. The ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club) took the initiative to conduct trials using rented MBB Bö-105 helicopters. The results were so promising that, in November 1970, the first permanent civilian rescue helicopter was stationed in Munich. In the years that followed, the number of locations grew significantly. Partly thanks to the success of the German network of military and civilian rescue helicopters, interest in establishing a similar service in the Netherlands grew in the mid-1980s—especially as traffic in the Randstad region became increasingly congested.
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ANWB Medical Air Assistance
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