The World Welcomes The Much Needed Fixed Wing Air Ambulance

By Lila Bryant


Lack of enough medical facilities and long distances between well equipped hospitals and people has made it necessary to have air ambulances. The fixed wing air ambulance is made up of many medical emergency services . Companies giving such services do everything they can to satisfy or reach out to a large number of patients at any point in the country, and this is always possible due to the existence of the air ambulance.

Most providers of these services give transportation services on the ground, urgent air transportation of sick people on private jets and special health care services to people who need them. For success, they often contract other plane companies to provide them with supplementary planes and medical officers. This ensures that they have enough manpower and facilities at all given times.

They serve individual patients, companies that provide managed care, international embassies and even organizations that give health maintenance services among other health care providing companies. These services are always prompt and convenient to patients since planes are fast, and their sizes allow them to reach any part of the country.

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.

Another commonly used plane is Chieftain; can only carry one patient, two other passengers and the medical team. Chieftain travels 900 miles averagely at a speed of 215 miles an hour. The most frequently used ambulance planes are the Lear jets. They are planes capable of carrying a full team of medical officers, one patient and at most 2 passengers. The maximum distance it can travel is 2195 miles at a speed of 475 miles in a single hour.

The last type of airplane used is the Gulfstream III that has a range of 3500 miles. It has an average speed of 500 miles in one hour. It can carry one patient, a full medical staff and a maximum of six other people. These planes are always equipped with enough medical equipment for first aid. The medical staff is made up of fully qualified medical practitioners.

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.

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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