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All you need to know about an Air Ambulance!

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An air ambulance is a necessary lifesaving tool, but booking a flight all by yourself during emergencies can be a challenge on its own. You are bound to see many phrases and terminology that are not familiar to, which is what makes it harder to choose the right provider or the package you need than it should be. This is why Book Air Ambulance in India wants to help you out with and in doing so we are sharing some of the most frequently used air ambulance terms that you are prone to come across as you try to find an ambulance package that will suit your needs and at the same time turn out to be very cost-efficient. We will explain both, the actual definitions of these terms as well as their implications. Air Ambulance: It is a fixed-wing aircraft that transports injured or sick people in a medical emergency or over distances or territory impractical for a conventional ground ambulance. Similar to the traditional road-bound ambulance, the air ambulance is often equipped with m
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The Standards Needed for Air Ambulances and Paramedics

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In most jurisdictions, air ambulance pilots must have a great deal of experience in piloting their aircraft because the conditions of air ambulance flights are often more challenging than regular non-emergency flight services. After a spike in air ambulance crashes in the United States in the 1990s, the U.S. government and the Commission on Air Medical Transportation Systems (CAMTS) stepped up the accreditation and air ambulance flight requirements, ensuring that all pilots, personnel, and aircraft meet much higher standards than previously required.  The resulting CAMTS accreditation, which applies only in the United States, includes the requirement for an air ambulance company to own and operate its own aircraft. Some air ambulance companies, realizing it is virtually impossible to have the correct medicalized aircraft for every mission, instead charter aircraft based on the mission-specific requirements. While in principle CAMTS accreditation is voluntary, a number of gove
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Location: India
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The Challenges faced by Air Ambulances

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As the military usage of air ambulances became more available for civilians things started getting difficult the number of air ambulances crashes in the United States, mostly involving helicopters, began to climb. By 2005, this number had reached a record high. Crash rates from 2000 to 2005 more than doubled the previous five year's rates. To some extent, these numbers had been deemed acceptable, as it was understood that the very nature of air ambulance operations meant that, because a life was at stake, air ambulances would often operate on the very edge of their safety, going on missions in conditions where no other civilian pilot would. As a result, nearly fifty percent of all EMS personnel deaths in the United States occur in air ambulance crashes. In 2006, the United States National Transportation Safety Board concluded that many air ambulances crashes were avoidable, eventually leading to the improvement of government standards and certification. Yet, there are qu
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Location: India
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An emergency can happen at any given time, where time is of the essence. In critical situations, every second can make a difference. There are several strategies that the medical profession uses to cope with these life-threatening situations and now with the augment of advanced technology Book Air Ambulance has come to the rescue. Initially, air ambulances were only used to transport patients who are in rapid need of assistance to a waiting emergency team at a distant hospital mainly for the army. But now these are as accessible as ground ambulances for anyone at quite a reasonable rate. While it may seem expensive, there are simply some areas that can't be reached by road. It's not always a question of speed and time, sometimes it's a simple question of whether it is a location that is accessible or not. Such ambulances have the same technology that you'll find on a regular ambulance.  Stretchers, ventilators, defibrillators, and a host of other modern medic
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Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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