That sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it?  Wikipedia’s definition of air ambulance service is here and provides a little food for thought.  A true air ambulance service is a bit more than some helicopter or fixed wing air craft showing up, bundling in a patient and taking off for the closest hospital.

An air ambulance is an aircraft used for emergency medical assistance in situations where either a traditional ambulance cannot easily or quickly reach the scene or the patient needs to be repositioned at a distance where air transportation is most practical. Air ambulance crews are supplied with equipment that enables them to provide medical treatment to a critically injured or ill patient. Common equipment for air ambulances includes ventilators, medication, an ECG and monitoring unit, CPR equipment, and stretchers.

 

Here are a few of the topics I plan to cover in this series:

• History of air ambulance services
• Survey of availability of medevac, air evacuation and similar services today
• How to select an air ambulance service
• How to find a career in the air ambulance industry
• Where the air ambulance industry should be in the future.

I have quite an interest in this area as I come from a background that involved quite a bit of the history of medical evacuations and air ambulance work in the North America scheme of things.  I was born in 1945 and the world was still young enough when I grew up to be able to appreciate aviation.

One of my influential tutors/mentors was a fellow named Eddie Gorski who was first soloed by another pilot name of Joe Crosson, a true Alaskan pioneer in air ambulance and mercy mission work.  So as far as I am concerned, time’s a wasting, let’s get flying or air ambulancing if necessary.

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