MARTINSBURG, W. Va. – West Virginia University Hospitals-East ‘s City Hospital Foundation recently donated $10,000 to HealthNet VIII to purchase a GlideScope for the Martinsburg based air ambulance helicopter. 
The GlideScope is a device used by flight nurses and paramedics to insert breathing tubes in patients who have suffered severe trauma, or to treat patients who have a difficult airway and are not breathing on their own. This video scope has a high resolution digital camera that is connected to a high resolution LCD monitor which assists the flight staff in establishing an airway.
HealthNet VIII is one of the first aircrafts in the tri-state area to place this device in service. This state-of-the-art equipment will allow WVUH-East and HealthNet to better serve the community by giving the flight staff cutting edge technology for use in the field with no delays.
Check presentation pictured from left to right: Mark Longerbeam, flight paramedic; Nick Cooper, flight nurse; Teresa McCabe, WVUH-East vice president marketing and development; Autumn Davis, chief flight nurse; Susan Snowden, chairman City Hospital Foundation board of directors; and Donnie Grubb, trauma coordinator at City Hospital.