Role of Air ambulance in rescuing people from emergency situations

Almost all the medical emergencies are emergencies, where time plays a very important role in saving someone's life. At times even a single second makes a lot of difference. There are many strategies that are used in medical profession to cope up with these life threatening situations and one of the most popular and highly used strategies is use of an air ambulance. In the beginning, when air ambulances were only used for transporting patients who are in an urgent need of medical assistance to a waiting emergency medical team at a distant hospital.

While it seems as an expensive option for some people to use an air ambulance, there are some areas that can't be easily reached by road. It is not always speed that plays a very decisive role, sometimes it is a question of accessibility. Air ambulances in India have got the same technology that is being used in regular road ambulances like Stretchers, defibrillators, ventilators, along with a host of various other modern medical equipments.

It was invented a long way back, it seems very unfortunate to say, but the first air ambulance was used by the military way back in the Korean War and air ambulance were used by the United States military as well. Because, it was a very useful technological advancement for transporting wounded military troops across hostile and inaccessible areas.

It's not only technological equipment that makes it special, but the staff as well. Let's talk about pilots for instance, pilots which are flying in a non emergency aircraft pass a less strict and demanding series of testing and the rest of the medical staff often consists of paramedics, technicians, doctors and in certain situations nurses. On the contrary, in case of more severe emergencies, specialist medical staff is being involved to rescue and perform certain life saving activities.