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Patient transportation services: how to order, what to look for

Often, when it comes to medical jets and patients’ transportation, most of the people come confused. There is a stereotype about the high cost and inaccessibility of this service. This is due to lack of information. Our medical transportation expert covered all the points that you need to know when the need arises to use the service of the patients’ transportation by air transport.

How to order transportation of the patient, and why air ambulance is preferable?

What is air ambulance? This question interests a lot of people, faced with the need to pay for bedridden patients, both severely ill, and those who need a doctor’s surveillance during transportation.

We will explain:

  • types of air ambulance and their advantage,
  • advantages of patients’ transportation with the MedExpress,
  • price of patients’ transportation, and how it is calculated,
  • how to call an air ambulance, and what are the terms from the time of order.

You will learn about the availability of medical flights for everyone.

What is air ambulance?

Air ambulance is a medical transportation of patients by airplane equipped by all necessary medical equipment, accompanied by a licensed doctors’ team from almost any place in Russia and abroad.

Most often the patients’ relatives express the need to order transportation of the patient with very severe diseases: oncology patients, those who ere injure during a road accident, patients after stroke and myocardial infarction, severe child diseases. According to medical indications, the rescue team provides the patients with an artificial air ventilation and reanimation during the whole trip. These are exactly the areas where a timely medical assistance is mandatory, when every day is important, and any delay can cause an irreparable harm.

Services of patients’ air transportation can be rendered in three ways:

  • transportation by an individual air ambulance
  • by a regular passenger flight
  • doctor’s assistance in a plane/or train during the whole trip

It is to note that each kind of transportation has its advantages and disadvantages.

If there is a necessity to order an individual air ambulance

Air ambulance information

Preparation of an individual medical plane or helicopter takes 3 to 4 hours. Some popular plane models: Challenger business jet, Hawker, as well as such models as Cessna, Learjet, Global Express, TU-134, Yak-40.

If a customer needs a helicopter, we can arrange for a payable patient’s transportation on the equipped ones: Eurocopter, or Mi-8.

The air ambulance is equipped with all necessary medical tools and devices. 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, which we can arrange for your disposal. For instance, heart, reanimation, pediatric, neurosurgical team.

Transportation of lying patients on regular flights

It is possible to transport a patient abroad by a scheduled regular flight. Such patient’s transportation by plane is considerably more economical, than that by an individual aircraft, and it requires as a rule, about two day before the departure. 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.

In a train, plane or resuscitation car, during a trip, or an important event – a doctor or medical team can accompany a patient. This kind of air ambulance will do for the patients, who can remain sitting, to move in a wheelchair, or to walk themselves.

Experience and safety Reliability
  • Our customers are attended by licensed medical teams.
  • We provide for a necessary equipment, including oxygen cylinders for the artificial air ventilators.
  • Our pilots have a long year experience.
  • We choose an optimal route for every case.
  • We have more than 10 years of experience.
  • We prepare all the documents.
  • We are always ready to urgent cases of transportation as soon as possible.
  • We arrange for an aircraft, according to the customer’s wish.
  • We dispose only by moderate prices for patients’ transportation, including those in a lying position.
  • We offer only reasonable prices and we remain loyal to our customers.
Always and everywhere Wide range of aircraft and devices
  • We have a world-wide geography of our routes: almost everywhere in the world.
  • 24 h consulting service, and taking orders for treatment abroad, and arranging for a trip.
  • We use charter flights, individual aircraft, and specialized rescue teams.
  • Our customers often use damper stretchers – special development, which prevents shaking during transportation.

Price of patients’ transportation

Medical aircraft - transportation of patients

The price is calculated depending on a necessary route, kind of transportation (regular flight, individual aircraft, or medical ground transportation). Very important is the patient’s condition, and composition of medical team.

Th price of patients’ transportation depends on an equipment aboard: e.g. the presence of the artificial air ventilator or oxygen cylinders, which will be aboard by such necessity. It is important in which position a patient will be transported: sitting or lying.

It is more economic to order a payable patient’s transportation by a regular flight, than to order an individual aircraft. If a patient can fly in a sitting position – it will be a more budget variant.

An individual aircraft is a more comfortable variant, which does not require transfer. The price of patient’s transportation in such case will be defined according to the flight distance, and aircraft model. The departure is possible at your convenient time.

Most frequent questions:

Who will check the patient’s medical documents?

Our doctor will check the patient’s documents. You phone call and presented medical documentation will have a confidential character.

Can we come in contact with the attending patient’s doctor?

Yes, of course, our medical consultant will come in touch with the attending patient’s doctor, or with the chief doctor, which a necessary part of our services.

Can the doctor examine the patient before the departure?

Yes, it is mandatory that the doctors examine the patient and evaluate his/her condition before the departure, they come to the patients several hours before. You can order a preliminary patient’s examination to evaluate the patient’s condition for flight. And only after that they discuss the transportation details, and what is necessary for that. Than we arrange for an aircraft.

Order the patient’s transportation right now!

Send your questions and orders for an air ambulance to our E-mail address, or call us day and night. The MedExpress specialists will make a calculation to you as soon as possible.

To compile your order correctly, please give us your name, contact phone(-s), E-mail. In the part “Additional information” specify your diagnosis, patient’s departure and arrival point.

Your request will be processed by a consulting doctor, and our specialists will compile an individual program for the patient, with a detailed description of it. They eill take the decision about patient’s transportation, and calculate the price for the patient’s transportation.

We are proud that more then a half of our customers use our services on the advice of their friends and relatives. A lot of our customers used the MedExpress services for an air ambulance repeatedly.

You need to do only this – to make your first step on the way to healthy and happy life!

Be healthy!

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