What information should a ground unit communicate to life flight?

Besides the location, radio frequency and patient disposition, what other information would be particularly helpful to life flight crews?What information should a ground unit communicate to life flight?wind direction and velocity, specific location of LZ, %26amp;hazards are a couple of things that come to mind. I am sure someone with real life experience can/will give you a more authoritative answer.What information should a ground unit communicate to life flight?weather condition at the site, visible landmarks with estimated visibility - to help the HEMS crew to assess the possible low visibility risks.



any hazardeous obstacles

layout of the secured LZ /wires, trees, poles, debris on the LZ, dust, sand, rocks/



colour of the lights of the rescue/medical ground vehicles - the blue strobes are extremely helpful at night.



required recovery/rescue material and personell if necessary.



special equipment /if not routinely carried onboard./ - defibrilators, heart action monitors, infusion pumps etc. incubators for the prematurely born babies.



ability to provide own medical personell to expand the craft's capacity of patients /we have been operating from a base wittwo alert helicopters one fr HEMS, the other for SAR. in case of a mass casualty, we could scramble the SAR craft to multiply the transport capacity. all we needed in such cases was the medical personell on site, since the helicopter itself was not provided with extra medical crew, just with two rescuemen-paramedics/



however all of these but the very first /the VISIBILITY/ can be radioed while the craft is enroute.



the visibility is a key information for the life flight chain-of-command, to decide the go-nogo for the craft and should be provided at the very beginning of the request for a launch of airborne HEMS craft.



the ground personell would not be able to measure the wind velocity, nor the precise wind direction;

besides the airborne crew would choose their own approach direction with respect to obsacles in the first place and only then with respect to the wind /which would not be appilcable if the wind velocities exceed the restrictions for tailwind hover/