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 [...]

Anyone, and everyone, can experience difficulties with mental health. During these turbulent times of the 2020-2021 pandemic mental health diagnosis has vastly increased, suicide rates have soared to devastating level, leaving a staggering shortage of resources for those who are affected. In more severe cases, an individual struggling with mental health can utilize a behavioral health facility that focuses on the treatment of mental, social, and physical illness in children, adolescents, and adults. Behavioral health facilities can be freestanding entities, state institutions, or operated as a department of an acute [...]

Patients who have been placed on ECMO have a severe and life-threatening illness that stops their heart or lungs from working properly. ECMO is utilized to pump and oxygenate blood outside of the human body to allow the heart and lungs to rest. Occasionally, patients on ECMO need to be transported to another facility for extra care specific to their needs. This is possible and can be done with a specialized ECMO team. These patients can be transported via ground ambulance, helicopter, or fixed-wing aircraft. The distance of the transport [...]

Choosing the services of air ambulance provider especially during a stressful time can be a daunting task. Thankfully, the advent of the internet with its powerful search engines has made this task much easier to ensure you are getting an air ambulance provider. Easy- right? Wrong! Your search may lead you to an air ambulance broker who portrays themselves as an actual air ambulance operator with websites showing images of aircraft and making promises of providing their “own” aircraft, medical staff and flight crew, when in reality they simply broker [...]