TREATISE ON AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION .1. ADMINISTRATION AND SOME MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 48  (6) , 546-549
Abstract
Well conceived administrative procedures were considered the backbone of a good, strong aeromedical evacuation system. These procedures must insure centralized control of patient transportation by aircraft, specialized medical attendants and equipment for inflight medical care, facilities for limited medical care of patients entering, en route in, or leaving the system and communications with destination and enroute medical facilities concerning patient transportation. There are no absolute contraindications to aeromedical evacuation. Patients with severe anemia, less than 2.5 million RBC[red blood cells]/cc or less than 7.0 g Hb/100 ml, respiratory embarrassment and trapped gas within any of the body cavities require special consideration. Medical problems in aeromedical evacuation defy resolution only when patient preparation has been improper. When the patient is properly evaluated, unnecessary, costly, hazardous and special flights are avoided. Aeromedical evacuation presents no problem so long as 1 remembers that man is adapted for life at or near sea level and that changes in pressure with increasing altitude affect his physiological processses. This invisible barrier will continue to challange human ingenuity in the conquest of high altitude.

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