Angel MedFlight launches educational initiative

The US-based Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance has launched its ‘Elevating Outcomes’ educational campaign which aims to highlight how air medical transport affects patient outcomes.

The campaign emphasizes the importance of access to specialty care, and is part of Angel MedFlight’s broader outreach efforts targeting Case Managers and Discharge Planners who help patients seek out-of-area medical experts for treatment.

Angel MedFlight says that ‘many families are unaware that patients can be safely flown hundreds or thousands of miles on medically configured jets staffed with clinical care clinicians’ and says that air ambulance providers ‘remove geographic barriers to life-changing care’.

The campaign’s first installment features the stories of two critical patients who have benefitted from air medical transport:

• Dominick Nino – a 10-year-old boy who rapidly went from being healthy to suffering with life-threatening leukemia due to a genetic mutation. Dominick was flown over 900 miles to receive a potentially life-saving clinical trial
• Slater Springman – a 22-year-old college baseball player whose routine workout sparked a ‘cascade of life-threatening medical complications’. Slater spent 32 days in an out-of-state intensive care unit before he could be stabilized and transferred to his hometown for pulmonary specialty care.