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Air Medical Equipment
When loading aircraft for each medical flight, our crews ensure that all the medication and life support equipment needed to provide routine or emergency medical services for the patient will be available. Equipment is customized for each mission, whether it's an air life flight or a commercial stretcher trip.
Patients travel in a Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) setting, with diagnostic tools and interventions of a hospital-based ICU unit at the ready. Years of experience, care, and special attention have been put into the current selection of flight equipment and medications dispatched on our missions.
Each tool in Med Flight's arsenal is an industry champion, widely used by the best of the civilian and military medical flight services today. All instruments have undergone rigorous field and engineering testing to prevent interference with aircraft systems and controls.
A partial list of equipment we carry includes:
- FAA certified aircraft stretcher and patient support systems (Spectrum, Lifeport)
- Physio-Control Lifepak 10C Cardiac Monitor/Defibrillator/Pacemaker
- Phillips MRX™ Vital Signs Monitor with
- Oxygen Saturation Monitoring via continuous non-invasive sensor
- Blood Pressure Monitoring via non-invasive automated BP cuff
- Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring via continuous 3-lead electrodes
- Invasive Pressure monitoring via arterial, cardiac, pulmonary, or intracranial sensors
- Pulmonetics LTV 1200™ Transport Ventilator, capable of full-range of ventilatory functions (PEEP, PIP, CPAP, PSV, air/oxygen mixing, Neonate to Adult range of settings)
- Poet® LT End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring via continuous in-line sensor
- IVAC® Medsystem IIITM 3-channel intravenous medication pumps
- Medtronic® demand pulse generator for translumenal cardiac pacing
- Impact Vac-Pak II portable suction unit
- Advanced airway management equipment including oral / nasal intubation equipment, surgical airway supplies, suction, and medical oxygen
- Advanced cardiac and trauma life support medications, intravenous fluids, IV/medication supplies
- Controlled Substances / Narcotics (Versed®, Valium®, Demerol®, morphine, Fentanyl) to ensure patient comfort
- Protocols supporting the use and monitoring of additional medications in accordance with patient needs.
Examples of additional equipment for specialized patient needs:
- Neonatal isolette, equipment, and associated medications
- Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP)
- Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
- Vacuum Mattress
- Traction splints
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