View Rescue Air 1 as an adjunct in your arsenal to
better treat your patients. In fact, we want you to view Rescue Air
1 as an extension of your hospital, no different than your Laboratory
Department, Radiology Department, or the tools and equipment found on
your unit such as your ventilator, Ambu-bag, or monitor. We are simply
a tool for you to use to better serve and treat your patients.
Why do Hospitals use Rescue Air 1? Because Rescue Air
1 can:
Decrease the time
to definitive care
A decrease in time to definitive
care increases the patient's chances of survival due to shaving minutes
off of their Golden Hour. The concept of the Golden Hour has typically
defined the trauma patient, but it can be expanded to include many medical
diagnoses such as unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction, acute
abdominal aortic aneurysm, cerebral vascular accident, and closed head
injury, just to name a few. If your hospital does not have the specialists
and expertise to adequately care for your patient's diagnosis, then
call Rescue Air 1. We can decrease the time to the necessary definitive
care. How do we decrease time to definitive care?
flying faster than a ground
ambulance drives
going from point A to point
B in a straight line without the hassles of red lights, traffic, or
bad roads
offering the Guaranteed ETA:
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Decrease the time to critical intervention.
As an extension of your team and as your transport
tool, upon our arrival at your hospital, we can assist you in providing
definitive care to your patient. Our flight team works from many advanced
protocols set forth by our medical director that allow us to perform
such interventions as rapid sequence intubation and surgical cricothyroidectomies,
just to name a few. In addition, we can also initiate therapies that
the receiving physician may want started prior to transport. Our flight
team is trained to work with you in getting these therapies started.
In addition, our flight team is trained to call the receiving physician
for all pediatric transports in order to get detailed instructions/orders
from the receiving physician.
Decrease the patient's
out-of-hospital time, which decreases the doctor-to-doctor time.
Sometimes we are asked, "Why should we wait on an air ambulance
when the ground crew can be at our hospital more quickly?" While
calling Rescue Air 1 may cause your patient to stay in your unit (a
stable environment) longer than calling a closer ground service, your
patient's out-of-hospital time (an unstable environment) is significantly
decreased. We get your patient to the needed care much more quickly
than a ground unit; we can fly faster than an ambulance can drive, and
we fly in a straight line without the hassles encountered on the road.
By decreasing the out-of-hospital time, we are also able to decrease
the doctor-to-doctor time. Again, the patient may stay in your unit
longer, but the patient is able to remain under the care of a physician
longer as well. By decreasing the out-of-hospital time, we are able
to get the patient to the hands of the receiving physician faster. Thus,
the doctor-to-doctor time is significantly shortened.
Provide a high level of care on each mission.
With each mission, we provide a registered nurse and a paramedic, both
of whom are specially trained in acute critical care transports. There
is no issue of decreasing the level of care while the patient is being
transferred. The patient remains under the care of a registered nurse
from your hospital until the patient arrives at the receiving facility.
In addition, while the patient is being transferred, he/she is being
attended and cared for by two highly trained and skilled clinicians
as opposed to just one in an ambulance. This also eliminates the need
for one of your facility's employees (nurse, paramedic, or respiratory
therapist) to be pulled away from their duties in order to accompany
the patient during the transport.
Assist in finding an appropriate receiving facility
for your patient.
Rescue Air 1 is independently owned and operated, and has strong relationships
with facilities in metropolitan Atlanta and other Georgia cities, as
well as with facilities in other cities and states that border Georgia.
We will use these relationships to work with you to find an appropriate
receiving facility if you do not already have one established.
Help you satisfy the EMTALA regulations regarding
patient transfers.
As you know, EMTALA regulates the means and mode of patient transfers.
Certain criteria must be met by the sending facility including providing
the most appropriate means of transport available. By using Rescue Air
1 appropriately, you are assured that your EMTALA responsibilities have
been met on the transport portion of your patient transfer.
Help your bottom line - Utilizing Rescue Air
1 doesn't cost you a dime.
Rescue Air 1 provides these benefits and more to you and your hospital
free of charge, meaning you will never receive an invoice from us. We
bill third party insurance and/or the patient directly for services
rendered.