Global Air Rescue Services
Global Air Rescue arranges numerous aero-medical transport services from emergency critical care transport, commercial international airline stretcher service and medical escorts for flights on private aircraft and commercial flights.
Critical Care Transport
Global Air Rescue arranges 24-hour worldwide service with fully coordinated bedside-to-bedside transport. Medical staff members consult with patient's physician and assemble the appropriate medical team and equipment. All flights may carry some or all of the state of the art equipment including oxygen, suction, infusion pumps, respiratory, and intubation equipment, volume ventilator, pulse oximeter, cardiac monitor and defibrillator and cardiac drugs. We coordinate every aspect of transport, including ground transportation and the provision of records to the receiving health care facility. Global Air Rescue provides 24-hour worldwide service with fully coordinated bedside-to-bedside transport. The medical transport team is generally composed of a critical care nurse and a highly skilled paramedic. In specific cases a respirator therapist, pediatric specialist and/or physician may be added to the transport team.
International Commercial Stretcher
Commercial stretcher service may offer a cost-effective solution to international private aircraft transfers. The patient's eligibility will be determined by the Airlines' Medical Director and their own private physician. Patients are accompanied by ICU/CCU aero-medically trained personnel specializing in critical care transport as well as all necessary emergency medical equipment determined by medical personnel which may include: defibrillators, oxygen and saturation monitors, cardiac monitors and emergency medication.
Services include:
- Medical consultation
- Obtaining medical clearance and approval from the airline.
- All ticketing for patient and medical staff. Global Air Rescue will assist obtaining tickets and travel documentation for additional family members traveling with the patient.
- Ground ambulances
- Monitoring of the transfer from start to finish and keeping all parties informed and updated of the transfer progression
- Transfer of medical records to the receiving facility
Airline Escort Service
Not all patients require private air ambulance service. Some patients may be able to fly commercially with a medical escort. This service is for patients who are medically stable but may require basic monitoring, oxygen, assistance with medication and boarding and debarking the aircraft.
Services include:
- Obtain required medical clearance
- Aero-medically trained personnel
- Medical equipment
- Reservations and ticketing for patient and family members traveling with patient
- Priority boarding and seating
- All ground transportation
- Monitoring of the transfer from start to finish and keeping all parties informed and updated of the transfer progression
- Transfer of medical records to the receiving facility (if applicable)
For more information on any of our services or quotation, please contact us. One of our Flight Coordinators will discuss any of the options in more detail and answer any additional questions you may have.
Organ Procurement
The founders of Global Air Rescue collectively have over a 25 year history of supporting organ procurement. We transport patients that require transplants and provide air transportation services for Organ Procurement Teams and Organs. In one calendar year, we arranged over 300 organ flights -nearly 1 flight a day - for one of nation's largest transplant centers.
Empty Leg Flights
An "empty leg" is the portion of an air ambulance flight when there is no patient on-board the aircraft. This would occur when an aircraft is repositioning to pick up a non-emergency patient or returning to its' home base after a transport has occurred.