Air Ambulance Service - useful information
- By:Natalie Halimi
An ambulance is a vehicle which transports sick or injured people to places of treatment for illness or injury. There are several types of ambulances: land-based motor vehicles, such as trucks, vans, station wagons, buses; air ambulances, such as helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft; boats and hospital ships.
Air ambulance service 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. An air ambulance is used for emergency medical assistance, where a traditional ambulance cannot easily or quickly reach the patient. In air ambulance service, helicopters are used as ambulances. Usually used for emergency care in places inaccessible by road, they are able to travel significantly faster than a road ambulance
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. Continuous medical intensive care during flight enables the physicians to maintain the patients’ life until he reaches hospital for continuing medical service. Medical services provided in air ambulance include continuous patient monitoring including EKG, non-invasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry and capnography. Specially trained people in equipped facilities help to rescue the patients’ life.
The need for emergency medical services is especially important in distant areas, where there is no immediate access to hospitals. Among international medical services, air ambulance service proves to be one of the most important factors, demonstrating the ability to respond quickly to the patients needs and provide the necessary medical care.
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