Patient Transport Unit for Aeromedical Evacuation

W Sapsford. Aeromedical Evacuation Following Abdominal Surgery

It is generally accepted that there are no absolute contraindications to the movement of patients by air (1, 2). However, there are special physical and physiological factors that must be considered before subjecting a patient to the potentially hostile flight environment. The major considerations are altitude and airframe whilst minor considerations include space, noise, vibration, turbulence,...

Aeromedical evacuation of burn patients from Iraq.

The Bali bombing: civilian aeromedical evacuation.

After the Bali bombing on 12 October 2002, many injured Australians required evacuation to Darwin, and then to burns units around Australia. Many patients were evacuated from Denpasar by Qantas, with assistance from staff of civilian medical retrieval services. The transport of patients from Darwin to specialist burns units involved a coordinated response of civilian and military services. Some...

Simulated Aeromedical Evacuation Exacerbates Experimental Brain Injury.

Aeromedical evacuation, an important component in the care of many patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly in war zones, exposes them to prolonged periods of hypobaria. The effects of such exposure on pathophysiological changes and outcome after TBI are largely unexplored. The objective of this study was to investigate whether prolonged hypobaria in rats subjected to TBI alters...

An Exploratory Prototype for Reactive Management of Aeromedical Evacuation Plans

This report summarizes the results of an initial, four month project demonstrating the applicability of the DITOPS scheduling system to USTRANSCOM’s Aeromedical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) re-planning problem. DITOPS is an advanced prototype system developed at Carnegie Mellon University for development, analysis and revision of large-scale schedules, applied originally to the logistics domain of stra...