air medical transport

Effective use of helicopter services for trauma depends on the ground responder's ability to determine whether the patient's condition warrants air medical transport.

LifeFlight is a 24-hour, 365 day/year air medical transport service for emergency, neonatal, and inter-hospital transport.

Mercy Flights is a ground ambulance and air medical transport service based in Medford, Oregon.

As well, the pre-1995 system did not have a coordinated air medical transport component, training and simulation centre, trauma program nor a medical first response program.

Memorial Hermann Life Flight is an air medical transport service based in Houston, Texas.

Besides being one of the state's Level 1 Trauma Centers, it also operates AirCare, an air medical transport service.

The primary function of STAT MedEvac is to provide air medical transport for patients with an injury or critical illness.

CATS accreditation is for fixed-wing and rotary wing air medical transport services as well as ground inter-facility critical care services.

LifeLine is Indiana's first critical care transport system in the state, commencing air medical transport operations in 1979 from Methodist Hospital Indianapolis.

Communication Specialists face daily challenges and additional responsibility as air medical transport systems expand and change; the OmniFlight Charleston Communications Specialists adapt and perform professionally.

LifeStar/Stat MedEvac 17 provides a robust and comprehensive level of on-scene and interfacility critical care air medical transport within a 150 mile radius of Erie.

Since its inception, CALSTAR has provided air medical transport services to more than 45,000 critically ill and injured patients, and has logged over 60,000 accident-free flight hours.

Olympic Flight Museum is located at the Olympia Airport, and Airlift Northwest, the region's air medical transport service uses the airport as one of its medical helicopter bases.

The air ambulance program was established in 1946 as the first non-military air medical transport program in the world; since October 2008, the Ministry of Health administers the program with operations handled by the Saskatoon Health Region.

LifeLine also operates two Neonatal/Pediatric ground transport units and each outlying base (Kokomo, Terre Haute, Columbus) operates a ground adult critical care transport unit for when the weather is inclement and meteorlogical conditions do not permit air medical transport.

Air medical transport is often stated to have first occurred in 1870 during the Siege of Paris when 160 wounded French soldiers were evacuated from the city by hot-air balloon, but this myth has been definitively disproven by full review of the crew and passenger records of each balloon which left Paris during the siege.