Medical evacuation

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Tatra mountains in Slovakia

Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac

air ambulances, helicopters
and other means of emergency transport including ground ambulance and maritime transfers.

Examples include civilian EMS vehicles, civilian aeromedical helicopter services, and military air ambulances. This term also covers the transfer of patients from the battlefield to a treatment facility or from one treatment facility to another by medical personnel, such as from a local hospital to another medical facility which has adequate medical equipment.

In Asia, according to Aeromedical Global (M) Sdn Bhd, medical evacuations via air ambulance can be performed via a single or dual stretched setup. According to patients medical condition, Emergency Air Ambulances will be equipped with relevant equipment (ventilators, Portable O2 Concentrator etc).

History

USAF Sikorsky R-5 Helicopter evacuates casualties during the Korean War
C-17 from Balad, Iraq to Ramstein, Germany
, in 2007

The first medical transport by air was recorded in

First World War.[2] One of the ill soldiers in that first medical transport was Milan Rastislav Štefánik, a Slovak pilot-volunteer who was flown to safety by French aviator Louis Paulhan.[3]

The

1st Air Commando Group's secret airfield in enemy territory and then made four trips from there between April 25 and 26 to recover the American pilot and four injured British soldiers, one at a time.[4] The first medivac under fire was done in Manila in 1945 when five pilots evacuated 75-80 soldiers one or two at a time.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Medevac". Merriam-Webster. 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Veliki rat - Avijacija". rts.rs. RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of Serbia.
  3. ^ L'homme-vent, special issue of L'Ami de Pézenas, 2010
  4. ^ Fries, Patrick. When I Have Your Wounded: The Dustoff Legacy (DVD), Arrowhead Films, 2013.
  5. ^ Conner, Roger. Medevac From Luzon, Air & Space Magazine, July 2010.

External links

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