Air Medical Transport
Our directory features a collection of articles on Air Medical Transport, tailored to EMS professionals involved in or coordinating air-based emergency services. Explore topics such as patient transport protocols, safety standards, and the coordination between ground and air medical teams. Understanding the complexities of Air Medical Transport is essential for optimizing patient care during critical transfers. Additionally, consider reviewing our resources on emergency transport logistics, which closely relate to the challenges of air medical services. Access these articles to enhance your knowledge and efficiency in air medical operations.
Lawmakers should evaluate billing issues and insurance company procedure to guide healthcare policy and protect patients
Montana legislators have endorsed a bill to prevent financial ruin for patients who urgently need air ambulance transport
Regardless of its cost, helicopter transport is a treatment choice and should not be chosen out of convenience
The driver of the car that collided with the Prisma Ambulance was charged with DUI; the crew sustained minor injuries
Intermountain Life Flight Chief Paramedic Rick Black helped to rescue three of the four surviving skiers after a group of eight were caught in the avalanche
Some in the Orange County, California public safety community have pushed to change the policy that restricts when a sheriff鈥檚 helicopter can be dispatched
The Stacie Morse Gift of Flight Scholarship is named in honor of a flight nurse who was killed in a medical plane crash in January 2019
Flight for Life Paramedic Kelly Baker said the incident is still having an impact on her vision days later
The family of Flight Nurse Rachel Cunningham is suing the operator of Survival Flight, alleging safety violations in the helicopter crash that killed three
Orange County fire officials are investigating why a fire helicopter was dispatched to the scene instead of a closer sheriff鈥檚 office helicopter
The new Life Flight Network helicopter stationed at Astoria Regional Airport will allow for onboard plasma transfusions, among other upgrades
Hatzolah Air has preordered four 鈥淐ityHawks,鈥� lightweight EMS aircraft designed by Urban Aeronautics to more easily land and take off in urban settings
The law doesn鈥檛 apply to emergency flights, one family found, because states are barred from regulating air transportation prices
The bill also calls for an advisory committee to look into regulation of ground ambulance billing
Daniel O鈥橞eirne and Jordan Reed, two strangers with fire and EMS backgrounds, worked together to save a driver whose semi-truck struck a pole and burst into flames
The NTSB鈥檚 report on the Bismarck Air Medical crash that killed the pilot, a paramedic and a nurse states the plane broke up in flight after the pilot failed to maintain control in dark night conditions
K-9 Sita became the first test pilot dog, allowing paramedics to train in emergency animal care
CareFlight partnered with AMSL Aero to develop the 鈥淰ertiia,鈥� an electric vertical take-off and landing medical aircraft with a cruising speed of 300 km (about 186 miles) per hour
The Kids Kare helicopter at Wolfson Children鈥檚 Hospital includes a neonatal isolette for transporting both full term and premature infants
An Orange County Fire Authority dispatcher sent a fire helicopter that arrived in 18 minutes instead of calling a sheriff鈥檚 copter only a minute away
A dispatcher sent a fire helicopter that took 18 minutes to arrive instead of a sheriff鈥檚 helicopter that was one minute away
The crash in Minnesota killed the pilot and a flight nurse, and seriously injured a flight medic
Alaska NTSB Chief Clint Johnson said the investigation into the crash that killed Pilot Patrick Coyle, Flight Medic Margaret Langston and Flight Nurse Stacie Morse has been 鈥渧ery challenging鈥� and led to many dead ends
Minidoka Memorial EMS Director Mark Phillips said the winter season will further complicate transports as medical helicopters are no longer able to fly
The memorial at Elko Regional Airport includes a bronze plaque inscribed with the names of the pilots, flight medics and flight nurses killed in the Access Air and American MedFlight crashes
The Roseville Volunteer Fire Department blasted the drone operator on Facebook and police have launched an investigation into the incident
Officials said the private ambulance helicopter crashed near the helipad at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
Vanderbilt LifeFlight, a subsidiary of Air Methods, is the first air medical program in Tennessee to receive the honor from the Association of Air Medical Services
Mercy Health 鈥� Life Flight recently launched its on-board blood program, allowing for in-flight transfusions of O-negative blood
When Fort Lauderdale fire crews arrived, nearby boaters were plucking people out of the water and off the boat
Respiratory Therapist Roman Valles, a contractor for Peak Medevac, was flown home to Colorado after contracting COVID-19 while deployed to Texas
Natalie Aulwes, 18, redesigned a ski resort helipad to get patients to the hospital faster without the need for intermediary ground ambulance transport
Palm Beach County鈥檚 two Trauma Hawk air ambulances have temporarily been grounded and a spokeswoman said the hospital district was working to finalize a lease for a substitute air ambulance
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