Air Land Integration Cell
ALI Cell 100k In May
Fundraising for Royal Papworth Hospital Charity
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First of all thank you for visiting our page & donating to such a great cause.
We are the ALI Cell. We train and deliver Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) and Tactical Air Controller Parties (TACPs) in support of RAF and Joint operations and provide Air Land Integration specialist practitioners for the RAF FP Force.
What started off as a team effort to get ourselves active during lockdown. Has now become our main focus to raise money for a worthy cause. One that has been effected so much during the Pandemic.
How is your fitness during lockdown? Fancy a challenge? Join the Air Land Integration Cell in their challenge to complete 100km during the month of May and help raise money for the Royal Papworth Hospital Charity to aid the Intensive Care Unit and ECMO(Extra-Corporeal membrane oxygenation) Facility.
We have already smashed our first target of £1000. And now we have a goal of raising £3499 for an ECMO circuit that oxygenates a patients blood, this ensures the patient survives long enough to receive further life saving treatments such as a case of antibiotics.
Walk, Run, Ride you can get the whole family involved!
Publish your pictures using the #100kinMayuk, send them to the closed group* https://www.facebook.com/groups/722371021904757/?ref=share
Or you can contact us about your Fundraising journey to 100k by email:
charity100km@outlook.com
About the Charity:
Royal Papworth Hospital has always ensured that it puts patients and their families at the heart of everything it does. The Charity is committed to supporting patients and their carers and seeks to enhance the support it provides to the Hospital. Charitable funds have enabled the Hospital to provide care beyond that of NHS funding alone, enhancing the Hospital’s status as the UK’s leading provider of specialist cardiothoracic care and the country’s main heart and lung transplant centre.
ECMO.
It is a form of life-support that we offer to patients with the most severe forms of heart and lung failure. Royal Papworth Hospital is one of five centres in the country to offer this service, and we regularly retrieve patients from other hospitals within the region, as well as offering advice and support 24 hours a day.
Royal Papworth Hospital is commissioned by the National Specialised Commissioning Team to provide ECMO to patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). This is part of a co-ordinated national response service to ensure all patients have year-round access to ECMO in England, including the retrieval of these patients from the hospital they are referred from.
This specialist retrieval team is available 24 hours a day to go rapidly to stabilise and retrieve patients referred to the service.
What is ECMO?
ECMO allows blood to be oxygenated outside the body. It can be used in potentially reversible severe respiratory failure when conventional ventilation is unable to oxygenate the blood adequately. The aim of ECMO in respiratory failure is to allow the injured lung to recover whilst avoiding certain recognised complications associated with conventional ventilation. It is high risk and is therefore only used as a matter of last resort in difficult cases. The procedure involves removing blood from the patient, taking steps to avoid clots forming in the blood, adding oxygen to the blood and pumping it back to the body to support the lungs.
ECMO is a highly specialised technique, which needs the input of intensive care specialists, cardiothoracic surgeons as well as ECMO-trained nurses and perfusion scientists.
It is a form of life-support that we offer to patients with the most severe forms of heart and lung failure. Royal Papworth Hospital is one of five centres in the country to offer this service, and we regularly retrieve patients from other hospitals within the region, as well as offering advice and support 24 hours a day.
Royal Papworth Hospital is commissioned by the National Specialised Commissioning Team to provide ECMO to patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). This is part of a co-ordinated national response service to ensure all patients have year-round access to ECMO in England, including the retrieval of these patients from the hospital they are referred from.
This specialist retrieval team is available 24 hours a day to go rapidly to stabilise and retrieve patients referred to the service.
What is ECMO?
ECMO allows blood to be oxygenated outside the body. It can be used in potentially reversible severe respiratory failure when conventional ventilation is unable to oxygenate the blood adequately. The aim of ECMO in respiratory failure is to allow the injured lung to recover whilst avoiding certain recognised complications associated with conventional ventilation. It is high risk and is therefore only used as a matter of last resort in difficult cases. The procedure involves removing blood from the patient, taking steps to avoid clots forming in the blood, adding oxygen to the blood and pumping it back to the body to support the lungs.
ECMO is a highly specialised technique, which needs the input of intensive care specialists, cardiothoracic surgeons as well as ECMO-trained nurses and perfusion scientists.
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Exercise once a day.
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