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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 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 ...

  4. 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).

  5. Three killed as medical helicopter crashes on way to pick up ...

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    Three people have died after a medical helicopter on its way to pick up a patient crashed in Kentucky.. The air ambulance crew had left its base in Grant County when the Bell 206 aircraft struck a ...

  6. Aeromedical evacuation - Wikipedia

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    An aeromedical evacuation of injured patients by a C-17 from Balad, Iraq to Ramstein, Germany, in 2007 C-9 Nightingale formerly used for Aeromedical Evacuation. Aeromedical evacuation (AE) usually refers to the use of military transport aircraft to carry wounded personnel.

  7. Saudi Air Ambulance - Wikipedia

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    The Saudi Air Ambulance service, started in 2009, is run by the Saudi Red Crescent Authority (SRCA), as part of its provision of emergency medical services in Saudi Arabia. The fleet includes helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. The service is used for domestic and international intensive care units. [1]

  8. Two dead after military helicopter crashes during training ...

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    Two soldiers were killed during a training flight Friday when their military attack helicopter crashed near the ... the other was assigned to its D Company 2-151 Lakota Medical Evacuation Unit. ...

  9. Moral Injury: Healing - The Huffington Post

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    A delirious wounded soldier reaches for a human touch while a flight medic and crew chief attend to other soldiers aboard a medical evacuation helicopter in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on Oct. 10, 2010. (Linda Davidson/ The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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