Delgado Community College (Jefferson Campus): Ochsner Flight Care Team Visits Respiratory Therapy Students At City Park Campus

Press release from the Delgado Community College Jefferson Campus:

June 21, 2021

The Ochsner Flight Care team visited the Delgado City Park Campus this morning, June
21, for a meeting and demonstration with students and faculty from the Respiratory
Therapy (RT) program in the Division of Allied Health. Several members of the visiting
Flight Team have studied or taught at Delgado. Rene Randall, MS, RRT-NPS, Delgado
Respiratory Therapy Program Director, coordinated the visit with Ochsner.

Ochsner Flight Care provides transport services for critically ill neonatal, pediatric and adult patients.
The transports are conducted primarily by helicopter with an immediate response radius
of 275 miles from Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.

The Flight Team consists of highly skilled, specially trained Registered Nurses (dual-licensed
as EMS Practitioners) and Registered Respiratory Therapists (RRT), all with advanced
credentials in their respective fields. Every transport is staffed with two clinicians,
each with a minimum of three to five years of critical care/emergency medicine experience.
Medical Crew Members hold certifications in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac
Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Neonatal Resuscitation
Program (NRP), as well as many other nationally recognized critical care certifications.

To view more images from the Delgado visit, please click here. Thank you.

This press release was produced by the Delgado Community College Jefferson Campus. The views expressed here are the author’s own.