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PLEASE COME BACK FOR MORE UPDATES ON THE LATIN AMERICAN AEROMEDICAL FORMATION; COLOMBIA, PERU AND ECUADOR ARE READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP. OTHER COUNTRIES ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CREATION OF OUR "INTERNATIONAL AEROMEDICAL ACADEMY" WHICH IS BEING FORMED DURING 2008. WE WILL DISCLOSE THE LOCATION ONCE OUR CONTRACTS ARE SIGNED.
With pleasure we introduce our Middle East Expert on aeromedical and HEMS operations. We welcome Dr. Gul into our aeromedical family.
Air Medical Services & the Middle East By: Dr. Fatih Mehmet GUL , MBA
General Operations Manager, Saudi HEMS.
www.saudihems.com E- Mail: drfameg@yahoo.com
The use of air medical services has become an essential componnent of the healthcare system in the world. Appropriately used critical care air transport saves lives and reduces the cost of healthcare. Helicopters fly point-to-point, minimizing time spent outside the hospital, and avoiding the traffic delays experienced by ground ambulances. Helicopter air ambulances are used for the transport of patients from the scene of an injury to a hospital, and for shorter flights between smaller hospitals and trauma centers or specialty hospitals (burn or cardiac centers, for instance).
Air medical service is a known lack of healthcare services in the Middle East. It is a need after considering road traffic accident statistics and poor rural hospital care levels. Regardless the very few numbers of private services, almost the entire air medical services are being conducted by governmental institutions (Army, Police, etc…) and most of them are operational for inter-hospital transfers. The system works and transfers patients after authority approvals which usually take along time to be issued. Other commmon problems with these services are the low level of medical care quality and lack of quality standards and accreditation from any international air medical service institute (CAMTS, EURAMI,etc.). ((Air Medical Services & the Middle East By: Dr. Fatih Mehmet GUL Refer to RIN176 on page 90)
Middle Eastern countries still don’t have functional HEMS to cater directly to the public needs under a national prehospital emergency system. Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society will be the first HEMS Operator in the Middle East with the sponsorship of Abdul Latif Jameel Community Services Programs. “Time is life” is a saying that means death and disability from severe injuries, heart attacks, strokes, medical and surgical complications, and other time-dependent conditions often can be avoided if the right care is provided quickly enough. The “Golden Hour” concept provides that on its way to the surgeon’s knife in that first hour, a patient should benefit from an organized EMS system which provides increasingly advanced care (e.g. BLS to ALS to the physician-level care provided by air medical crews). |
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