Air Ambulance Information
Understanding Air Ambulance Services:
When Do I Need An Air Ambulance?
Emergency. In extreme accidents when injuries are too
severe for local facilities, the victim must be transported, quickly, to a
larger facility or more specialized care institute. Air ambulances are more
favorable to ground transportation in this situation because they can cover
large distances in short periods of time, and because air ambulances are
better equipped with medical instruments and medication than ground
ambulances.
Facility to facility transportation. When a hospital
patient’s condition becomes too severe for the current facility, or when the
patient needs to be transported to a facility with a specialized doctor
hundreds of miles away, often the best choice of transport is by air
ambulance. This aircrafts are staffed with highly trained medical personnel
who often specialize in the cases relevant to each patient. Unlike ground
transportation, which can only monitor condition, air ambulances can offer
continual medical treatment to patients because they have advanced medical
equipment on board, as well as a stock of medications found in most
Intensive Care Units.
Unstable health transport. If you or someone you are
flying with has a medical condition that makes or can potentially make their
health unstable, a commercial pilot will refuse to transport you. Commercial
flight crews are not prepared to deal with those types of potential medical
emergencies. An air ambulance is set up to deal with a variety of emergency
situations. It is staffed with specifically trained medical personnel and
carries both medical equipment and medication. Air ambulance service can
more tightly regulate air pressure based on each client’s needs with medical
equipment.
With all of these types of situations, the advantages of air ambulance
service is abundant, such as most companies being Advanced Life Support
certified. Another advantage of using an air ambulance service is that air
traffic controllers give air ambulances priority routing; they clear all air
traffic that may potentially keep the air ambulance from making their
preferred landing.
Air ambulance services have been around for over 150 years, but in the
last few decades the advances in technology available on ambulance flights
have been numerous. People that were unable to be transported by air
ambulance ten years ago may find that they now can be made very comfortable
and treated in-flight during an air ambulance flight, especially when
commercial flights often refuse to accommodate someone on even a basic life
support system, or confined to a stretcher.
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