 00 May 0000 GlobalMed International is a leading provider of professional medical transportation services by air and by land. Providing insurance, assistance and private companies air ambulance flights, medical escorts on commercial airlines, repatriation and MEDEVAC solutions, GlobalMED International provides life saving assistance with a critical focus on the medical aspects of the transportation. When you have a patient that needs to be flown back home or to a location with a better medical standard, which company will you choose? Let us give you some advice. Insiders know that a cheap transport makes it much more expensive afterwards. Severe medical side effects of a low quality transport often reveal themselves not earlier than 00 to 00 hours afterwards. Atelectasis, pneumonia, decubital ulcers are just some of these. Are you already sure on the choice of company? Not yet? Good! Who is performing the transport? Is it a primarily medical company or an aviation company? This is important for making an estimation how your patient will be treated. A patient is much more than just "living cargo". And who is with the patient? In some countries it is allowed that even critical care patients are flown without a physician. Why are there differences in the quite strict regulations for ground interfacility transfers of critical care patients compared with the air transfers? Ask for the qualification of the medical personnel on the plane. Your patient is worth a specialist intensivist and registered ICU/anesthesia nurse. Paramedics have a different medical education, being well-trained for emergencies, but not for the nursing needs on longer flights. And look for the bed-to-bed service, taking over the patient from the treating staff and handing over the patient to the treating staff in the receiving hospital. This reduces the risk of losing important information. Are you still not sure which company to choose? Good! Besides the operations and the personnel there are differences in medical equipment. Just check if the provided equipment really meets the needs of your patient. If your patient is comfortably awake on a ventilator with a semi spontaneous breathing mode, the transport ventilator should be able to provide the same. Besides for moving the patient on the transport stretcher, additional sedation means an active additional vulneration of the patient. Do you already get a clearer image? Well, there is some more information. The smaller the plane, the harder it gets to provide good and safe medical treatment. Here medical expertise, nursing abilities, experience and good equipment make the difference. GlobalMED International - the only medical operated company that just uses specialists for intensive care medicine and registered ICU/anesthesia nurses, providing a worldwide multilingual bed-to-bed service with the top-of-the-list equipment and superior hygiene standards. Range Of Services Critical care treatment on air ambulance flights Medical escorts on commercial airliners Extreme longrange medical escorts Education for air medical personnel Quality advise for air ambulance companies Achievement of medical information in foreign hospitals Medical recommendation on "fit-to-fly" status Medical travel advice Air Ambulance Five dedicated air ambulance Learjets Four in permanent double stretcher configuration Based at Cologne Intl. Airport No nightflight restrictions Own maintenance facility New Tempur mattresses Especially on longer flights patients are endangered to develop decubital ulcers. To fight this danger all stretchers have new Tempur matresses, clinically proven to reduce the rate of decubital ulcers, dramatically. Also the pillows were exchanged by new ones with variable thickness to increase the patient's comfort. Desinfection of the planes After each mission the complete interior of the planes including all medical equipment is desinfected with the "Bio Sanitizer", a device working with hydrogen peroxide. Its' effectiveness is granted by the Robert-Koch-Institute (the German CDC). Cross-infection of a patient with multiresistant bacteria by contaminated surfaces is not possible anymore. Medical Escorts Mainly starting from Frankfurt Intl. A irport One of Europe's gateways to the world Many direct connections Base of Lufthansa's Patient Transport Compartment for intensive care patients (PTC) Medical Personnel Consultants in Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Emergency Medicine Registered Nurses in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Additional Training Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Newborn Resuscitation Management (NRM) Intensive Care Transport Course Altitude Physiology Hygiene Safety equipment on the aircraft Flight emergency training with evacuation Smoke in the cabin & Ditching Hazardous materials Survival Communication / CRM Qualification of GlobalMED's Medical Director: Board Member, Medical Advisor and Instructor for the IAFCCP - Germany Auditor and recent Board Member for EURAMI Member of the Air Medical Physician Association Board certified in Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Pain Therapy, Travel Medicine, Altitude & Trekking Medicine Leading Emergency Physician Instructor for paramedics of the German Red Cross 00 years experience in intensive care and emergency transports 00 years experience in air ambulance transfers, (0 years medical director of a big air ambulance company) 0 years experience in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Address: Auf Roedern 0c, D-00000 Pfaffenheck Phone: +00 0000 000 000 Fax: +00 0000 000 0000 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. 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