29
Jan
2010
Intensive-Transfer from Guadeloupe to Frankfurt (Germany)

First flight with the mini heart-lung-machine Life-Box over the Atlantic Ocean

with improvised hemofilter on ECMO

 

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palm-fringed hospital...

 

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Our complete cardiac life-support equipment after arrival

 

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The patient on his way into the ambulance-jet

 

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The Life-Box with hemofilter

 

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At home is winter and -5°C, here we fly above the rainforest of Guadeloupe (38°C),

what a climate shock!

 

Photos: F. Born