Saturday, August 9, 2014

The Services Offered By Medical Air Ambulance

By Tanisha Berg


Special jets and helicopters are used to transport patients from accident scenes to health centers. They have qualified personnel that provide pre-hospital and emergency services to patients in critical condition during evacuation period. Propeller jets and helicopters are used for rescue missions in the events of floods and earthquake. These medical air ambulance services have helped save life by taking care of patients before they arrive in hospital for comprehensive treatment.

In the past, jets were never used for this purpose. However, things changed during the world war one. This idea was widely used during this period to ferry the sick people who got injured during this period. Research shows that the first emergency jet to be used in history traces its way back in 1972 in Denver. Helicopters are mainly used for transporting patients over a short distance while wing air crafts are used for longer distances.

The service ensures that patients are given good attention right from the trauma scene until they get to the hospital. It is easy to access unreachable scenes of trauma using helicopters since they are not affected by factors such as traffic jam. This is a convenient means of transport because little time is taken to transport patients from scenes of trauma to trauma centers. Patients in critical conditions receive health care from doctors who are members of the crew.

However, use of aircrafts and helicopters do not apply everywhere. The service depends on ground responders who informs the condition of the patient and whether it requires use of choppers. Crew involved should undergo training to ensure appropriate triage criteria are applied. Stringent criteria can affect quick response and transporting victims of trauma. If a victim is not in critical condition, there is no need to use helicopter since it is an expensive mode of transport.

Safety of crew and the victims of trauma is an important factor considered before using helicopters for rescue mission. The crew should consider the distance from the trauma scene to the closest trauma center before they decide to evacuate victims. Bad weather condition can also determine whether to use helicopters or not. Rescue mission can be cancelled or postponed if this crew does not feel comfortable with the mission.

It is important to save lives but at the same time plane crashes must be avoided. Jest used to move patients must always be checked regularly. This reduces the chances of the plane crashing. The state of the weather must also be considered before suing this mode of transport.

People that get injured in long distance and remote places are transported from the scenes of trauma to trauma centers by use of planes. The process is called aeromedical. Missing people in the seas and deep in the forest are searched using choppers and wing aircrafts. They may be used for chasing criminals because they are very fast.

Emergency helicopters and aircrafts are equipped with devices used for treating patients when being flown from the scenes of accident. Common gadgets found in rescue choppers are monitoring unit and health ventilators. The aircrafts are highly used in sparsely populated places inaccessible by road.




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