Isolation pods: the rush to save lives

Isolation units flooded the market during the Covid-19 pandemic, with demand unusually high. How did that influence decisions around certification and safety? Clara Bullock spoke to air ambulance providers and...

Interview: AMREF Flying Doctors

Clara Bullock spoke to Stephen Gitau, CEO of Kenya-based air medical service provider AMREF Flying Doctors, about adapting to his role during a pandemic and how he still finds his...

Case Study: AirCARE1 uses High Flow Oxygen Therapy on board its air ambulance

In the past, High Flow Oxygen Therapy has only been used in a hospital setting. After observing the major benefits of this therapy, AirCARE1 incorporated high flow into the company’s...

Case Study: Transporting a Covid patient on ECMO across the globe

In August 2021, AirMed International set out to complete a transport that most would consider impossible. They needed to move a Covid-19 patient on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) from the...

Case Study: How to transport a patient with respiratory insufficiency

A patient with respiratory insufficiency is likely to aggravate their respiratory distress during transport, especially with aeronautical constraints and pressurisation phenomena

Case Study: Airlec Air Ambulance uses first air ambulance configuration of Falcon 900EX

Paul Tiba describes a memorable mission that made use of Airlec’s Falcon 900EX – the world’s first version of the aircraft in air ambulance configuration