Oh, wow, Cutter, that’s great.
Where I live, it’s often a coin toss whether the helicopter will mean shorter transport time because of how long it takes the chopper to get to us.
What tips the point in the chopper’s favor is that there’s always an Advanced Life Support on board, usually a full Paramedic or an NP.
The transport times work out to be roughly the same.
Again, I don’t have all the information. I’m speculating. But we have someone who was lucid, talking with no alteration in LOC. Yes, she was bleeding and yes, it was life threatening. But if the bleeding was controlled and her airway wasn’t compromised, I would have voted for ambulance rather than chopper. Chopper ride can be pretty bumpy and it’s much easier to work in the back of an ambulance. It’s really, really tight in the back of the chopper.