Wednesday, June 4, 2014

The World Welcomes The Much Needed Fixed Wing Air Ambulance

By Lila Bryant


Lack of good medical facilities around living places has led to an invention that has been long overdue. The fixed wing air ambulance is very helpful today. This ambulance is mainly an airplane with a team of trained medical officers. They travel all across the country providing transport services to people in need of urgent medical attention yet hospitals nearby do not have the capacity to offer the services they need.

The fixed wing ambulance is useful in various ways; it enables ground transportation, ensures specialized care reaches people who need it, and offers emergency transportation of the sick on private airplanes. Their companies in conjunction with others normally provide these special services. This is normally done after an agreement is entered into by partnering companies. As a team, the companies ensure that adequate planes and staff attend to clients.

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.

Service providers always aim at serving people with varied needs. Patients be in need of life support services; either basic or advanced, international stretcher services; for patients in critical conditions or even emergency transportation aboard private planes. They also provide medical escort services to people who need them.

Air ambulance providers are always available be it daytime or night. This makes their services reliable and easy to access in case of any need of medical attention and emergency air transport for patients under critical medical conditions . Almost all medical service providers have coordinators and multilingual flight attendants to allow easy communications with clients.




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