Air Medical Services in the Middle East

Read the ArticleThe use of air medical services has become an essential component of the healthcare system in the world. Appropriately used critical care air transport saves lives and reduces the cost of healthcare. Helicopters fly point-to-point, minimizing time spent outside the hospital, and avoiding the traffic delays experienced by ground ambulances. Helicopter air ambulances are used for the transport of patients from the scene of an injury to a hospital, and for shorter flights between smaller hospitals and trauma centers or specialty hospitals (burn or cardiac centers, for instance). Fixed wing air ambulances (airplanes) are used for transporting patients on longer inter-hospital flights. In fact, 54% of all air medical transports are hospital to hospital, 33% are scene responses, and 13% are other types (e.g. organ procurement and specialty/neonatal/ pediatric team transport).

The use of air medical services has become an essential component of the healthcare system in the world. Appropriately used critical care air transport saves lives and reduces the cost of healthcare. Helicopters fly point-to-point, minimizing time spent outside the hospital, and avoiding the traffic delays experienced by ground ambulances. Helicopter air ambulances are used for the transport of patients from the scene of an injury to a hospital, and for shorter flights between smaller hospitals and trauma centers or specialty hospitals (burn or cardiac centers, for instance). Fixed wing air ambulances (airplanes) are used for transporting patients on longer inter-hospital flights. In fact, 54% of all air medical transports are hospital to hospital, 33% are scene responses, and 13% are other types (e.g. organ procurement and specialty/neonatal/ pediatric team transport).

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