HELIMED Rapid rotary response

摘要

They answer to the callsign HELIMED and, to people on the ground, it is the sight and sound of lifesaving help swiftly en route to an ongoing emergency, There are more than 25,000 helicopter emergency service (HEMS) missions in the UK each year, according to the association Air Ambulances UK, the national organisation that supports public donations to the service. More than 40 helicopters currently fly civil air ambulance or HEMS flights in the British Isles. Air Ambulances UK states that the helicopters caseload is split between responses to traumatic injuries (68%) and medical emergencies (32%). The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) makes a distinction between air ambulances, which provide flights to transfer patients between specialist centres, and HEMS aircraft, which transport urgently needed equipment or medical professionals to a location, sometimes performing lifesaving, pre-hospital procedures at the scene.