Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Fixed Wing Air Ambulance; Flexible And Convenient

By Lila Bryant


Shortage in medical facilities and long distances between people and of well equipped hospitals has led to an increased need for air ambulance. The fixed wing air ambulance is composed of aircraft that provide varied medical emergency services. Companies that offer these services are always committed to providing medical services to an extent of taking patients from their beds to hospitals. They have the ability to go to any place because of their fast planes.

Most air ambulance service providers major in provision of ground transport, emergency transport of patients on private planes, specialized care for people in need of care. They also make contracts with other companies in the provision of these specialized services. These companies help in ensuring that there are enough planes and medical staffs to attend to patients.

The ambulances offer services to individual patients, other companies that provide controlled health care, foreign embassies and even establishments that provide health maintenance services. Companies that offer such services are always reliable and dependable to patients. This is majorly because their movement is through planes which are faster and small sized. These qualities enable them access any part of the world with ease.

The types of planes used by most of the air ambulance companies include Piaggio P 180. This is a plane that can carry a team of doctors, a patient and three accompanying passengers. It has a lavatory that is enclosed and has the capability of traveling up to a maximum of 1,500 miles at a mean speed of 450 miles in one hour.

Chieftain is the other model of planes mostly used in this field. This one travels at a maximum velocity of 215 miles in an hour, and has the ability to go up to a maximum of nine hundred miles. It can carry two passengers, a patient and his/her team of medical attendants. Learjet is the other type of plane mostly used for carrying patients. It carries the medical team, the patient and two other people.

The fourth type of plane used as air ambulance is Gulfstream III. This plane can fly to a maximum of 3,500 miles at an average velocity of 500 miles per hour. It is capable of carrying a patient, the required medical staff and at most, six accompanying passengers. All these planes have enough drugs and other medical facilities that can help provide first aid to the patient. The medical team is normally composed of trained practitioners in the field of medicine.

The emergency services provided always target patients with different types of needs. Patients may be in need of; critical care transport, basic life support or even advanced life support. These services may be mere emergency transport on private ambulance jets with special medical equipments or even international stretcher and medical escort services; where patients in dire need of medication are taken to hospital that provide the services they need.

Providers of these services are reachable every time whether day or night. It is, therefore, easy to reach them in case of need for medical services and emergency air transports for people under critical medical conditions. Most service providers also have multilingual flight attendants and coordinators for the sake of making easy the process of communicating to clients.




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