About Your Medical Flight

Transporting Your Loved One on a Medical Flight:
Most medical flights offer bedside to bedside service. Your loved one is then delivered directly to the waiting plane from the ambulance. Highly trained medical crew should accompany him/her throughout the flight, monitoring all vital signs and being prepared to provide any medical assistance necessary. Often A family member can accompany the loved one on the flight. When the medical flight arrives, a ground ambulance should transport the patient to the receiving hospital.

Medical Equipment/Medications on Board a Medical Flight:
The aircraft is outfitted with equipment to handle almost any medical emergency needed on board.

Each air ambulance should carry specialized medical equipment including:

• Cardiac monitor/defibrillator
• Respirator
• Built-in medical oxygen
• Intravenous solutions and poles
• FAA approved stretchers
• Ventilators
• Portable suction units
• Intubation equipment
• Balloon pump
• Resuscitation equipment
• Antibiotics
• Any specialty equipment required for the individual patient

Medical flights should have a stretcher on board, its own electrical supply, oxygen supply, air pump, vacuum pump and power inverter. Having all of this at the medical team's fingertips allows fragile patients to travel in comfort with the least amount of moving and jostling on the air ambulance.

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