Air ambulance boon or bane

1. Air Ambulance - A boon or Bane Have you heard of the "golden hour"? It is that critical one hour after an emergency or surgery that decides the survival of the patient. That is why the lives of patients are largely dependent on medical transportation services during emergencies. Yes, it is the ambulance that makes or breaks the life of the patient. Be it a private ambulance service or a non-emergency ambulance service, the ambulance is the life-saver. What is an air ambulance? In today's fast world, accidents and emergencies are many. Saving patients lives has become increasingly difficult owing to heavy traffic on roads and the expanding borders of the cities. That is why air ambulances have become the need of the hour.

2. An air ambulance is a medical transportation service that uses airplanes or helicopters to transfer patients to hospital facilities during emergencies. An air ambulance is an airplane or helicopter fitted with emergency medical facilities like stretchers, clinical equipment, and a medical team of doctors and nurses to tend to the patient. The air ambulance needs the assistance of the ground ambulance to bring the patient to the helipad before airlifting. The air ambulance has numerous advantages that are listed below. Air ambulance advantages The Air ambulance advantages are so innumerable that they are being touted as "lifesavers" and "guardian angels". Here are some of the Air ambulance advantages that help you agree on the same. Air ambulances expedite medical care   Air ambulances are synonymous with urgent medical care. Owing to the swiftness of air travel, great distances are covered in the shortest time enabling patients to reach the best hospitals within minutes. This has saved the lives of millions of patients. Air ambulances serve people living in remote locations   Medical facilities are scarce for people living in remote locations. This is because hospitals are far off and road access may be difficult to reach the remote location. For such distant areas, air ambulances act as a boon in shifting patients to hospitals during emergencies. Air ambulances are the best mode of medical transport during natural   calamities Natural calamities like floods, storms landslides and earthquakes may damage roads and make transportation difficult. During such critical situations, an air

3. ambulance is the only medical transportation service to transfer patients to hospitals or doctors to the affected areas. Air ambulances save the lives of critical patients   For patients who are extremely critical, Air ambulances are the best. They shift the patient instantly to the ICU and help in saving them. Air ambulances were formerly used for high-profile patients like ministers and business tycoons. But now, they have become very affordable and millions of middle -class people have started availing this medical transportation service to save the lives of their dear ones. Air ambulances help in shifting patients to specialized health care   centres A patient may be taken to a hospital during an emergency. But if that hospital does not have the required facilities, no time must be wasted in shifting the patient to a specialized health care centre with the latest equipment and expert specialists. This is where an air ambulance comes to the rescue. Using an air ambulance, a patient can be shifted from one hospital to another without any further delay. Air ambulances help in shifting medical equipment from one place to   another An Air ambulance can also be used as a non-emergency ambulance service in shifting equipment form one hospital to another. All the above Air ambulance advantages help you in casting their vote in their favor. Are Air ambulances really a bane? Never. the Air ambulance advantages clearly outweigh the risk factors. The only impediment in using the Air ambulance was the cost factor but that has also been

4. done away with in recent years. Nowadays, Air ambulances have become very economical in cost and easily accessible too. If you need 24x7 clinical help, the Air ambulance is the only medical transportation service that can help you. Out of every million people in India, nearly 43,000 die of sudden cardiac arrest. Save our dearest ones during the golden hour by using an air ambulance to save their lives.