Helicopter shopping part 1 – hospital dispatchers

In the first of two articles, James Paul Wallis looks at the role that hospital dispatchers play in the complicated issue of helicopter air ambulance ‘shopping’ in the US healthcare…

Provider Profile: Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance

AirMed&Rescue spoke to Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) about the unique challenges they face on a daily basis, providing the population with access to emergency air medical transport services

HeliResQ 2019 - event report

Sami Ollila, Vice-President, EURORSA - Rescue Swimmers Association, reviewed the recent HeliResQ – Nordic Workshop for AirMed&Rescue

Total UK partners with Cornwall Airport Newquay on jet fuel donations

Total UK Limited has expanded its support for air ambulance services during Covid-19 by supplying free jet fuel to the Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust (CAAT)

USHST develops CRM report to reduce helicopter accidents

The United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) has developed an initiative to formally adopt the practice of Crew Resource Management (CRM) throughout the helicopter industry

Air Ambulance Technology delivers EMS kit to Austrian military

The Austrian version of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, the S-70A-42, has been kitted out with a new medical interior, courtesy of Air Ambulance Technology (AAT)

DRF Luftrettung gets new HEMS equipment for H135 and H145

German ambulance service DRF Luftrettung has concluded a framework agreement with Bucher Leichtbau on HEMS equipment for its H135 and H145 helicopters

Migrant search and rescue

Alex Pollitt, a SAR pilot with Babcock Mission Critical Services España, asks if the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean could result in the final flourish of the manned helicopter as…

Doing your safety duty in airborne special missions

How do airborne special missions providers manage and mitigate the risks to their crews? Mario Pierobon spoke to the experts to find out more

Provider Profile: Sarpa Air Ambulance

Jaime Augusto Maya Cuartas, Air Ambulance Manager at Sarpa Air Ambulance, gives AirMed&Rescue a peek behind the curtain at the organisation’s history and operational processes

Hoisting infectious patients: Helicopter hoisting in the current Covid-19 environment

Brad Matheson of Priority 1 Air Rescue shared his insights into how to safely hoist patients that present with a respiratory infection, whether it be Covid-19 or anything else, keeping…