Air ambulance – patients’ transportation by plane
The MedExpress Company renders services of international sanitary aviation. If a patients requires hospitalization at a foreign clinics by plane, you can come in contact with us by phone, and learn about opportunities for patient’s transportation:
Call +7 (800) 600-46-03
We will arrange for a patient’s transportation by plane or by helicopter, taking into account your individual requirements!
Air ambulance transportation needs come formalities, that is why you can send us information about patient (Medical documentation, copy of travel passport, by necessity – patient’s visa, and documents for accompanying persons to: sanavia-me@yandex.ru
Visa application for treatment in Europe and Asia, if there are medical indications, requires less time. By necessity, we can render this service, together wit sanitary aviation.
Patient’s transportation starts from the hospital ward. The patients will be transported to the plane by an emergency rescue team. The patient’s air transportation finishes in a destination location abroad, where a resuscitation car will deliver the patient from the plane to the clinics (hospital ward).
During the flight, the patient can be accompanied by one or several (depending of an aircraft type) relatives, friends. During a flight, patients is accompanied by an English-speaking doctor – resuscitator.
Air ambulance options:
- Individual aircraft (patient’s transportation by plane or helicopter)
- Regular or charter flight (patients’ transportation by Aeroflot, Lufthansa flights, and other air companies).
- Patients’ transportation by a medical team on regular railway trains.
- Resuscitation cars, ambulances, including those equipped by damper stretchers.
Each of these variants has its advantages and disadvantages. To receive more detailed information, please click here.
Air ambulance on an individual aircraft
When using an individual aircraft, to prepare a plane or helicopter, they need 3 to 4 hours.
Air transportation of patients is carried out by:
- Helicopters: Eurocopter, MI-8.
- Planes: Hawker 800 XP, Challenger 850, Cessna, Learjet, Global Express, TU-134, Yak-40.
Availability of operating base for medical aircraft, where you can learn the main technical features of individual planes. Aboard the planes and helicopters for sanitary aviation they have medical equipment: Shiller, Weinemann, Dragger, Terumo, Ambu, Spencer, Criticare.
A specially equipped medical turbojet is to your disposal!
The crew of such plane is composed by: captain, second pilot, doctor and assistant. All the doctors who are directly involved in to the patient’s transportation by plane or helicopter abroad, speak foreign languages, and they have a long-term Schengen visa.
Perhaps, for patient’s transportation according to medical indications, you will need a specialized air ambulance teams:
- General reanimation.
- Trauma resuscitation.
- Neurosurgical team.
- Heart reanimation.
- Therapeutic teams.
- Pediatric team.
- Pediatric reanimation.
As for price for such services, you can ask the specialists medical-express.ru on the following phone: +7 (800) 600-46-03
Medical aviation on regular flights
It is possible to transport a patient by a scheduled regular flight. Such patient’s transportation by plane is considerably more economical, than that by an individual aircraft. We choose flights on principle price-quality. Before and after the flight, loading and reloading of lying patients is carried out by special lifts. As a rule, the stretcher is placed apart from other passengers, and is separated by a special screen.
The price of air ambulance services is calculated for each case separately.
We can arrange an air transportation even for a heavily ill patients, with different diagnoses. You can study the cases of patients’ transportation in the following table:
Route | Type of transportation | Patient’s diagnosis | Transfer | Comment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Moscow – Vienna (Austria) | Individual Hawker 800xp aircraft | Oncology | Ambulance at departure and arrival point | Use of artificial air ventilation. Lying position |
Sankt-Petersburg- Munich (Germany) | Regular flight | Spinal fracture, tracheostomy | Ambulance in Munich | Transportation in lying position |
Krasnoyarsk – Moscow | Individual aircraft Challenger 850 | Injuries, complete paralysis | Ambulance with damper stretcher in Moscow | Use of artificial air ventilation with damper stretcher in Moscow |
Rostov-on-Don – Dusseldorf (Germany) | Regular flight | Oncology | Sitting position, accompanied by doctor. Wheelchair | |
Sankt-Petersburg – Salekhard | Regular flight | Consequences of traffic accident | Use of artificial air ventilation. Lying position | |
Moscow – Berlin (Germany) | Regular flight | Heart disease | Ambulance in Moscow and Berlin | Wheelchair. Lying position |
Rostov-on-Don – Prague (Czech Rep.) | Regular flight | Stroke effects | Lying position | |
Krasnodar - Moscow | Regular flight | Neurology | Ambulance in Moscow | Child, 8 months |
Moscow – Frankfurt/Main (Germany) | Regular flight | Internal diseases | Ambulance at departure and arrival | Child, 1 year old. Use of artificial air ventilation |
Sankt-Petersburg – Dusseldorf (Germany) | Regular flight | Oncology | Lying position |
As to hospitalization in clinics of Germany, Israel and other countries of the world, as well as to air ambulance service across Russia, and from abroad to Russia, you can ask us by phone: +7 (800) 600-46-03
or you can write to us: sanavia-me@yandex.ru, Skype: medical.express1, or leaving your request as below.