Emergency Medical Services - Medi Ops

Transporting patients by air can be costly, but it often the only choice. There are various medical situations where nothing else will do. Under ideal circumstances, the possibilities of in-flight medical care cannot be matched by other modes. Apart from the speed factor, air transport allows for a far larger complement of medical staff and services to be made available to the patient. Medical air transport is usually called for emergency rescue and providing specialized but locally unavailable medical treatment (including chemotherapy, life support, dialysis etc.) Modern medical procedures such as organ transplantation also require the fastest possible means of bringing the patient and the source together. Whatever the circumstances may be, medical air transport is not simply a matter of speed. Considering the fact that only serious medical situations call for it, a medical air transport craft must necessarily feature the very best that the profession has to offer. In operati...