Air ambulance services are a vital component of medical tourism, offering rapid, safe, and specialized transport for patients seeking care across borders, facilitating successful international medical journeys.
Overall, air ambulance services are a critical component of the healthcare infrastructure, providing rapid, specialized care and ensuring timely access to essential medical services.
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.
