Medical oversight
Life Star’s medical director is board-certified in both emergency and family medicine. Dr. Kingfisher oversees all medical crew training and skills testing as well as reviewing every patient chart for every transport.

Medical crew experience
Life Star’s flight nurses must have over three years of critical care nursing experience, and flight paramedics must have over three years experience as a street paramedic prior to becoming eligible for employment. The actual average nursing experience of Life Star’s flight nurses is 22 years, with an average of 12 years at Life Star. The actual average paramedic experience of Life Star’s flight paramedics is 15 years, with an average of 7 years at Life Star.

Medical crew training
Life Star requires numerous certifications for its medical crew members. All crew members must maintain certification in ACLS, PALS, NRP and FNATC. All of Life Star's flight nurses must become Certified Flight
Registered Nurses (CFRN) and all of Life Star's flight paramedics must become Certified Flight Paramedics (FP-C).
All medical crew members are required to complete a number of annual clinical rotations including Labor and Delivery (at Stormont-Vail), NICU (at Stormont-Vail), PICU (at Children’s Mercy Hospital). Intubation skills testing is done every six months in the surgical departments at Stormont-Vail and St. Francis medical centers. Advanced skills labs (chest tubes, central lines, crics, etc.) are done annually at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Medical control
Medical control/consultation for difficult and/or highly critical patients is available 24/7 with Life Star’s medical director or a designee.