Equipement and resilience
Medic'Air has been able to create its own network of quality service providers.
Medic’Air chose to invest in the best medical equipment of transport to allow its medical teams to work in optimal safety conditions for their patients.
Our decision is to fly only with dedicated ambulance aircraft of recent manufacture and equipped with the best avionics, and according to the latest standards in force.
The onboard equipment is the outcome of over 20 years of experience of missions in difficult to reach areas, with unstable patients suffering from serious diseases. This material, which now presents the same performances as devices used in hospitals, is adapted to the special conditions of ambulance flight and requires regular training of medical staff to optimize its use during evacuations.
This equipment – regardless of its location in the world – is traced and maintained by five nurses / care assistants who check up its condition and manage setting up after each mission, and organize regularly scheduled revisions.
These facilities are of three types :
THERAPEUTIC AND CARE :
Air ambulance intensive care kit
Intensive care kit for flights on stretcher with commercial airlines
Intensive care bag for doctor/pediatrician, nursing care bag
Additional bags for chest trauma, serious burns, psychiatric cases, highly contagious patients etc.
Medical ventilators with various functions
Vacuum devices
Electric syringe pump
Vacuum mattress, etc.
Highly specific equipment: incubator, counterpulsation console and console ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation – in partnership).
Complementary aviation oxygen cylinder (3200 liters) and extractors of oxygen
Tous ces dispositifs sont systématiquement doublés et toute équipe médicale qui part chercher un patient en avion ambulance dispose de toute la pharmacopée et le matériel d’usage unique répartis également dans deux sacs complémentaires mais différents, ainsi, pour exemple : deux dispositifs d’intubation oro-trachéale ( laryngoscope à fibre optique et un vidéo laryngoscope ) deux ventilateurs ( un à turbine et un relaxateur de pression ) deux dispositifs de vide ( un électrique et un manuel ), deux, ou quatre … ou dix pousses seringues électriques …etc…
All these medical devices are systematically arranged in two same sets, and each medical team that leaves to get a patient by air ambulance takes all the pharmacopoeia and disposable equipment arranged in two similar sets. These can be made of, for example: two orotracheal intubation devices (Fiber Optic Laryngoscope and video laryngoscope), two ventilators (one turbine ventilator and one pssure relaxator), and two vacuum devices (one electric and one hand operated), two, or four…or ten electric syringe pumps, etc.
The range and quantity of drugs in a standard air ambulance kit can treat in the best conditions any pathology for an adult patient of 120 kg for 12 hours in a row.
In case of an unexpected incident, a team on the mission has the capacity to work in spite of loss of the half of its equipment (application of the principle of the resilience) or they can also take charge of a second patient requiring care, which has not been programmed.
MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTIC :
Our teams always follow the recommendations of the French Society of Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR) to monitor the in-hospital patients.
Every medical flight is supplied with specially adapted equipment to the air conditions for wide hourly range surveillance and is complemented by additional diagnostic:
Pulse monitoring, blood pssure (invasive and noninvasive), oxygen saturation, capnography, intracranial pssure
ECG 3 channels / 18 derivations
Electronic stethoscope
Ultrasound
Laboratory with ionogramme, gas analysis, hematocrit, lactatemia
Malaria, Troponin, HIV rapid tests – Glucose – Couagulation time
LOGISTICS :
Important part in the success of complex missions are various tools we are using:
smartphones with internet access
lamps and lighting devices
electric adapters and international extension cables
oxygen and air connections fitting the standards of many countries
coolers
sleeping bags, tents, mosquito nets, food rations (3 days x 3 people) etc.
straps and fastenings
parachutes and its relevant equipment
This list is not exhaustive; all the equipment is ready and constantly available for teams leaving on missions.
Quotation Request
Medic’Air invoices its customers only at the mission, on a precise and fast quote, and does not impose any subscription or annual package.