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2. Air Evac Lifeteam - Wikipedia

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   Air Evac EMS, Inc. was founded in 1985 to serve the rural Missouri Ozark area and was originally headquartered in West Plains, Missouri.At the time, air ambulances were primarily based in metropolitan areas but Air Evac's founders believed that residents of rural areas, often far from hospitals, had the most critical need for these services.

3. Flight for Life - Wikipedia

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   Flight for Life is a prehospital care service with many bases of operation across the United States. [1] Flight for Life is primarily known for its emergency medical helicopter transport, but also operates a fleet of land vehicles and fixed-wing aircraft for the transport of critically ill patients to specialized medical care. [2]

4. Air medical services - Wikipedia

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   An air ambulance is a specially outfitted helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft that transports injured or sick people in a medical emergency or over distances or terrain impractical for a conventional ground ambulance. Fixed-wing aircraft are also more often used to move patients over long distances and for repatriation from foreign countries.

5. International Association of Flight Paramedics - Wikipedia

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   The International Association of Flight and Critical Care Paramedics is a non-profit organization that represents critical care paramedics that transport critically ill or injured patients by means of airborne (rotor and fixed wing) or ground vehicles.

6. Ambulance - Wikipedia

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   These can be road-going vans, boats, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft (known as air ambulances), or even converted vehicles such as golf carts. Patient transport ambulance – A vehicle, which has the job of transporting patients to, from or between places of medical treatment, such as hospital or dialysis center, for non-urgent care. These can ...

7. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States caused a major increase in job danger, job stress, and employee turnover, causing a national shortage of EMS workers. [28] Compounding the problem was a temporary shutdown of training, recruitment by hospitals for nursing staff, and increased pay in other occupations experiencing a labor shortage and ...