Dr. Saul Pytka is an anesthesiologist, caring for patients in a busy urban hospital. He’s also cared for the critically ill and injured in ditches, on ski hill... Read More...
This is the medical interior of the STARS H145 helicopter. It's a flying intensive-care unit, and every surface must be sanitized and decontaminated after ever... Read More...
What if your office is a cramped space in the sky without air conditioning or windows that roll down to let the breeze flow? We asked our crew members what it ... Read More...
In COVID-19-wary world, our medical crews have adopted a strict regimen of donning and doffing personal protective equipment for every mission. Flight nurs... Read More...
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From STARS support staff across Western Canada currently working from home, we’re sending a huge shout-out to the heroes in h... Read More...
“I am only alive today because of STARS." - Ron Diller, STARS VIP
In the spring issue of Horizons, we told you about a man whose life was saved thanks to the t... Read More...
At the end of a particularly hot summer, a farmer and his employee were using a grain auger to harvest the last of the season’s bounty when the machine jammed. ... Read More...
Sometimes a medical emergency isn’t caused by a collision or traumatic incident, but by simply standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Shaylee Belke was... Read More...
The STARS Critical Care and Transport Medicine Academy is an outreach education program available to rural and urban emergency service providers in air medical ... Read More...
The average STARS mission involves flying a patient from a scene to hospital or from one hospital to another.
But every so often our missions ask us to make ... Read More...
