Learn the key differences between medevac and air ambulance services. This beginner’s guide explains when each option is needed and how they support patients during medical emergencies.
Learn when air ambulance services are essential, including severe trauma, remote-area emergencies, and time-critical hospital transfers. Discover key medical situations that require rapid air transport.
Timely Air Ambulance transfer to such facilities while the patient(s) receives care from obstetrical/ neonatal specialists has been shown to be safe, cost-effective and beneficial.
The scarcity of cardiac intervention centers, particularly outside of urban areas, suggest a role, supported by studies to date, for HEMS in quickly transporting patients, even patients whose hearts have stopped and been restarted, from remote hospitals to these centers.
There is a window of time in which clotbusting treatment can result in patients suffering little to no long term damage and disability from these events.
