Helicopter
Flight Crew Commercial
Communication Breakdown; Training / Qualification
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Hazardous Material Violation; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Procedure
During patient transport; hospital staff advised crew that patient had been burned in a butane explosion and was possibly cooking methamphetamine. I was advised by the medical crew that the patient was decontaminated by hospital staff. After flight; aircraft; equipment and personnel were further decontaminated. At no time did the crew smell or believe contaminant was still present. The decontamination after the flight was done out of an exercise of caution and not [because] of any chemical discovery. After the flight; during a clinical review of the medical patient record; the Medical Director further interviewed the crew and determined that a complete decontamination was most likely not completed. This leads me to believe that there is a possibility that Hazardous Material may have been on the patient during transport.
Air ambulance helicopter pilot reported that a patient; possibly injured while cooking methamphetamine; may not have been properly decontaminated prior to transport.