air ambulance service
air ambulance serviceA Beech KingAir of the Australian Royal Flying Doctor Service. King Air 200 air ambulance interiorThe London Air Ambulance is an MD-902 helicopter. Older type of an air ambulance, of a Danish Red CrossAn air ambulance is an aircraft (often a helicopter) that is used for emergency medical assistance in situations where a road ambulance cannot easily or quickly reach the scene. Usually an air ambulance is equipped with material which enables the crew to give a first adequate medical treatment to a critically injured or ill patient. This mostly includes for example a respirator, medicines, an ECG and monitoring unit, CPR equipment, a stretcher, etc. Air ambulance services. The medical crew of an air ambulance normally consists of one or more paramedics but is mostly joined by a flight nurse or a physician who has been specially trained for this duty. Who exactly forms the crew with which qualification depends on the regional structure of the emergency medical assistance which the air ambulance usually cooperates with. On many air ambulance, pilots with immense experience in avionic matters and flight business are occupied. This is required because the conditions of air ambulance flights are often much less convenient than regular non-emergency flight services. The first air ambulance service was established in outback Australia, in 1928, an organisation that became the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Providing emergency and non-emergency ground and air medical services to the |