August 2020 Newsletter

Be Like the Blue Angels

A new blog post on Emergency Preparedness

As Labor Day approaches and we all wish for a simpler time of beach trips, one of the things that I will miss the most this upcoming Labor Day weekend is the Blue Angels. My wife's family, a proud Air Force family, would remind me it is the Thunderbirds, not the Blue Angels, of which I should be writing. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and one of the highlights of the long weekend was always the Blue Angels flying over Coney Island Beach. It was always cool as a child to see something move so fast, make so much noise, and fly so close to each other without colliding. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that the precision flying was due to many hours of practice and each pilot knowing what their exact role was in the formation.

The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds spend many hours practicing for their shows, but what most of us don't think about are the countless hours spent rehearsing what to do in the case of an emergency. Each pilot rehearses emergency procedures exhaustively so that their actions are second nature in the event of an emergency. While some of you are inevitably pilots, we can all practice like flyers on how to conduct ourselves in the case of emergency.

Hybrid Surgical Suite

Shimadzu unity Edition Trinias C16

Spartanburg Regional Hospital in Spartanburg, South Carolina recently installed a Shimadzu Trinias C16 as part of a hybrid surgical suite. The Trinias shares the space with full ER suite allowing surgeons to use use the Trinias and then switch to the operating table without leaving the surgical suite.

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