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AirCARE1 Featured in ITIJ: The Intricacies of Transporting a Complex Pediatric Patient

By |2026-06-12T09:11:54+00:00September 1st, 2022|Categories: Medical Flight, Medical Transportation, Patient Transport, Pediatric Patient Transport|

Since the advent of the air ambulance and its eventual evolution into long-range, intensive care units in the sky, its highly trained flight teams are responding to young patients that are more complex than ever before. AirCARE1 was called to transport a critically ill, pre-term, three-month-old infant with a multitude of congenital defects requiring comprehensive pulmonary and advanced cardiovascular life sustaining measures. The baby was to be transferred from an Intensive Care Unit at Phoenix Children’s Hospital to an Intensive Care Unit at Texas Children’s Hospital for evaluation by a [...]

Pain Management During Long-Range Air Medical Transports

By |2026-06-10T13:23:55+00:00April 26th, 2022|Categories: Holistic Care, Medical Transportation, Patient Transport|

Air Ambulance services are required when a patient has a medical injury or illness and needs to be transferred to another location for further medical care. Long-range transports are transfers from state to state, to or from another country outside of the US, or any distance where specialized care is necessary. These transfers are carried out in larger fixed-wing aircraft, versus a rotor aircraft, that are medically configured to act as an airborne ICU and can transport the patient safely, comfortably, and quickly. Long-range Air Ambulance aircraft are professionally staffed [...]

AirCARE1 Featured in ITIJ: High Flow Oxygen Therapy Case Study

By |2026-06-10T13:24:37+00:00March 8th, 2022|Categories: Medical Equipment, Patient Transport|

Since the start of the pandemic, many treatment therapies have grown in popularity within the healthcare environment. One of these therapies is High Flow Oxygen Therapy. High Flow Oxygen Therapy helps reduce the need for invasive ventilation. It has proven to be an effective, non-invasive solution that allows patients to receive oxygen while reducing strain on the body and support healing. This acronym chart aids in describing the benefits of High Flow Oxygen Therapy In the past, High Flow Oxygen Therapy has only been used in a hospital [...]

AirCARE1 Covid Patient Transport Case Study Featured in ITIJ

By |2026-06-12T09:07:59+00:00September 10th, 2021|Categories: Patient Transport|

AirCARE1 recently provided a case study of two Covid patient transports to the International Travel & Health Insurance Journal (ITIJ), featured in the Air Ambulance Review September 2021 Issue. Read the article below: CASE STUDY: AirCARE1 Air Ambulance continues to transport Covid patients Nat Arnold, Flight Paramedic and Client Relations Specialist at AirCARE1, describes how the company is continuing to care for Covid patients AirCARE1 has been involved in the care and transport of multiple Covid positive patients throughout the pandemic. The acuity of these patients has ranged from asymptomatic [...]

AirCARE1 Now Offering High Flow Oxygen Therapy Capabilities

By |2026-06-10T13:26:44+00:00May 24th, 2021|Categories: Press Release|

Press Release Date: 5/24/2021 AirCARE1 announces their newest medical capabilities of offering High Flow Oxygen therapy to their patients during Air Medical Transports out of the west coast. As a leading Air Ambulance provider to bring this new medical intervention into the air, AirCARE1 can now transport patients with respiratory conditions such as COVID-19 or Pneumonia that require higher flow rates for long distances despite the limited oxygen capacity onboard their Learjet aircraft. High flow oxygen therapy has been primarily used in the hospital setting and has helped reduce the [...]

AirCARE1 Neonatal ECMO Patient Transport Case Study Featured in ITIJ

By |2026-06-12T09:12:25+00:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: Company News|

AirCARE1 recently provided a case study of a neonatal ECMO patient transport to the International Travel & Health Insurance Journal (ITIJ), featured in the Air Ambulance Review March Issue. Here is what the article said: A neonatal patient on ECMO needed a short transfer within the US, which required very meticulous planning and preparation by AirCARE1's air medical team Case background AirCARE1 was called to transport a seven-month-old infant who was currently on extra corporal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). This patient had been born prematurely and had been diagnosed with a [...]

AirCARE1 COVID Patient Transfer Case Study Featured in AirMed&Rescue

By |2026-06-12T08:56:15+00:00February 1st, 2021|Categories: Company News|

AirCARE1 recently had a COVID-19 patient transport case study featured in AirMed&Rescue. Here is what AirMed&Rescue had to say: Denise Waye of AirCARE1 reports on a Covid patient mission in which the patient arrived in a very different condition to what had been expected, forcing the air medical crew to take swift and decisive action. AirCARE1 was called by family members to transport a 67-year-old male from a remote city in central Mexico to the state of Delaware in the US. This gentleman was a wealthy businessman who operated successful [...]

AirCARE1 is Available to Transport COVID Patients

By |2026-06-10T13:30:59+00:00June 29th, 2020|Categories: Company News|

Amron NIV Hood May 17, 2021 Update AirCARE1 now offers an additional way to transport patients with infectious diseases, including COVID-19, H5N1, SARS, and even Ebola. In addition to the ISO VAC patient isolation module that AirCARE1 purchased in the summer of 2020 to safely transport COVID patients, we now transport patients utilizing a Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Hood for respiratory droplet isolation. Both medical equipment options are FDA approved and the safest ways to transport patients while protecting crew members onboard as well as preventing the spread of COVID-19 in [...]

Assessing Patients’ Conditions in Advance of Air Medical Transportation

By |2026-06-12T09:06:37+00:00October 30th, 2019|Categories: Medical Transportation, Patient Transport|

AirCARE1 was recently featured in an ITIJ (International Travel & Health Insurance Journal) article focusing on the importance of properly assessing a patient’s condition prior to medical air transport. Here is what ITIJ had to say:  […]