Keesler medical teams aid Haiti relief efforts Published Feb. 11, 2010 By Steve Pivnick 81st Medical Group Public Affairs KEESLER AFB, Miss -- The 81st Medical Group's Critical Care Air Transport Teams are providing care to victims of the Haiti earthquake who are airlifted from Haiti, to hospitals in Florida. So far, the Keesler's CCATT teams have completed eight medical missions as of Feb. 7. Emergency medicine physician Maj. (Dr.) Stephen Boskovich, 81st Medical Operations Squadron, said his team, including a critical care nurse and a respiratory therapist, has completed three missions. The second Keesler CCATT team, also comprised of an emergency medicine physician, a critical care nurse and respiratory therapist, has completed five missions. "We've seen the same kinds of patients from a few months old to adults, with traumatic injuries and medical emergencies," Major Boskovich said. "My most recent patients included a 34-year-old man with a left leg amputation stemming from crush injury that later developed tetanus, and a 13-year-old girl with sepsis and multiple intra-abdominal abscesses from a ruptured appendicitis. Major Boskovich went on to say that, missions are flying daily to and from Haiti, and that their teams fly every three days. "We've distributed earthquake patients to hospitals as far north as Atlanta, and occasional flights go to a burn center in North Carolina and even one to Walter Reed in D.C., for an active-duty soldier who had symptoms of multiple sclerosis."