Critical care air transport: Experiences of a decade
Journal Title: The Journal of Medical Research - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Advances in critical care medicine in recent times has led to favourable outcomes of critical patients, although at a high cost. Military operations along with natural or manmade disasters are two scenarios where critical patients are left in austere environment. Providing advanced ICU facilities in the austere environment may not prove to be economical or sustainable, hence the need arose for mobile ICU or the CCAT for immediate air transport of critical patients to advanced ICU centres. Firstly, by doing this the critical patient is not denied the best available post resuscitation care and secondly the burden on medical resources at the periphery is reduced and they can concentrate on managing the less critical patients. Aeromedical transport has its own challenges and constraints. This requires proper planning and prior training of the CCAT. Although optimal strategy are not formulated, endeavour is to integrate initial resuscitation of critical causalities at the peripheral medical set up with optimal post resuscitation care at advanced ICUs. Critical care air transport has evolved considerably over the past one decade since its inception in the IAF. The current paper can be useful in getting an overview of this new field. Meanwhile, the reader also gets to know the basic aspects to keep in mind, the technical details and important considerations before carrying out such missions.
Authors and Affiliations
MN Vijai, Parli R Ravi, Abhishek Pathania
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