Air Ambulance Service

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Air ambulance service, sometimes called Aeromedical Evacuation or simply Medevac specializes in air medical transportation. Long-distance medical transportation includes services of physicians, paramedics and nurses. Airplanes, fully equipped as intensive care units, provide emergency medical service and international medical care, transferring the patient from one country to another.

Air ambulance specialists are trained medical team with flying experience; in critical situations, when every minute counts, medically equipped air ambulance becomes the most important factor in saving humans’ life. Medical services provided in air ambulance include continuous patient monitoring including EKG, non-invasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry and capnography.

There are so many questions you need to ask before you decide which ambulance service operator you should hire because choosing the wrong ambulance can literally be the difference between life and death.

Here are a couple of questions that you need to ask:

  • Does the service provide a trained nurse?
  • Is the stretcher FAA certified?
  • Will medical oxygen be supplied to a patient in need of it?
  • How are intravenous fluids hung?
  • What kind of suction is provided?
  • Is the medical director fully trained in all flight environment problems?
  • What medical equipment's are carried?
  • What emergency supplies and drugs are on board?
  • Who arranges for ground transportation?
  • Are medical records kept?