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2. Medical evacuation - Wikipedia

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   An AW109 helicopter evacuates a patient from the Tatra mountains in Slovakia. Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac [1] or medivac, [1] is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to patients requiring evacuation or transport using medically equipped air ambulances, helicopters and other means of emergency transport including ground ambulance ...

3. Air ambulances in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Air ambulances in the United States are operated by a variety of hospitals, local government agencies, and for-profit companies. Medical evacuations by air are also performed by the United States Armed Forces (for example in combat areas, training accidents, and United States Coast Guard rescues) and United States National Guard (typically while responding to natural disasters).

4. International SOS - Wikipedia

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   International SOS is a privately owned company. They work with educational organisations, [11] corporate clients (including the majority of the Fortune Global 500), [4] corporate clients (including 89% of the Fortune Global 100 and 64% of Fortune Global 500), governmental organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

5. Global Rescue - Wikipedia

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   The company performs field rescues, [1] sending critical care paramedics and military special forces veterans to the site of an emergency. Global Rescue provided services to its members during major events including the 2010 Haiti earthquake , the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, the 2011 tsunami in Japan , [ 2 ] the 2013 civil unrest in Egypt , and ...

6. Medical evacuation insurance: another cautionary travel tale

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   Last month, my parents went to Florida for two weeks against the advice of their four children. We were worried that my father, who is on oxygen and has multiple medical problems, would take a ...

7. Air medical services - Wikipedia

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   During World War I, air transport was used to provide medical evacuation – either from frontline areas or the battlefield itself.. In 1928, in Australia, John Flynn founded the Flying Doctor Service (later the Royal Flying Doctor Service), to provide a wide range of medical services to civilians in remote areas; these included from routine consultations with travelling general practitioners ...