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cord-346102-0fwf1m28	Tien, Homer	Critical care transport in the time of COVID-19	2020-05-13		.txt	text/plain	1825	114	48	1 Ornge provides air ambulance and critical care transport services to Ontario. 1 Ornge provides air ambulance and critical care transport services to Ontario. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides guidance on airframe selection for transporting severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus (CoV) patients. For northern communities, Ornge has augmented three remote health care facilities with additional ventilators Critical care transport and COVID-19 from our own stockpile. However, we have modified our operating practice to allow for two ventilated patients to be transported in select private air carrier aircraft with our OSRT paramedics. In Southern Ontario, Ornge has partnered with Toronto Paramedic Services (TPS) to develop a plan for transporting multiple critically ill COVID-19 patients in the TPS ambulance bus (Figure 2 ). Air ambulances and critical care transport providers are operationally-focused organizations that can play a critical role during pandemics.	./cache/cord-346102-0fwf1m28.txt	./txt/cord-346102-0fwf1m28.txt