Air medical services

A Pilatus PC-12/45 utility aircraft of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Australia
A Sécurité Civile EC145 helicopter conducts rescues operations for the French Minister of the Interior
Sequence image of mountain take-off by an Agusta A109 SP Grand "Da Vinci" helicopter from Rega air rescue service

Air medical services are the use of aircraft (both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters) to provide various kinds of medical care (especially prehospital emergency medicine, paramedic service and critical care), typically to and from remote locations far away from hospitals, during outreach, critical couriers (e.g. pharmaceuticals, equipment and transplant organs), patient transfer, medical evacuation, disaster response and search and rescue operations.

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