An air ambulance operator certified against an independent aeromedical standard such as EURAMI or CAMTS.
The movement of a patient by air with a dedicated medical crew and equipment, from one care facility to another.
Any aircraft configured and crewed to transport a patient under continuous medical care.
A third-party organisation appointed by a travel or expat insurer to handle medical assistance and repatriation logistics.
A transport ventilator certified for use in flight, used to support patients who cannot breathe adequately on their own.
The effective altitude inside a pressurised aircraft cabin, which is lower than the actual flight altitude but still above sea level.
The named operations lead running a medevac mission from first call through to bedside handover.
Casualty evacuation — moving a casualty from the point of incident, often before definitive medical care is established.
A stretcher installed across a block of economy or business-class seats on a scheduled airline, used for medical repatriation when clinically safe.
The full name for HEMS — rotary-wing aircraft and crew deployed for emergency response and short critical-care transfers.
Helicopter Emergency Medical Service — rotary-wing emergency response, typically to incident scenes or short inter-hospital transfers.
The formal transfer of clinical responsibility from the medevac team to the receiving hospital, with structured documentation.
Mass Casualty Incident — a situation where casualties overwhelm local resources and triggers external evacuation support.
Short for medical evacuation — a dedicated air mission to move a patient out of a location where adequate care is unavailable.
Approval from an airline or aeromedical authority that a patient may travel, sometimes with specified conditions.
A clinician — physician, nurse or paramedic — accompanying a patient on a flight to provide care en route.
Returning an ill or injured patient to their home country for further treatment or recovery.
Medical Information Form — a standard form completed by a treating doctor and submitted to the airline's medical desk.
A business jet covering regional and intra-continental sectors, the workhorse of intra-European and intra-US medevac.
Evaluation of how a patient can be transferred — independently, with assistance, by wheelchair, or by stretcher only.
A short fuel and crew stop during a long-range mission, with no passenger or patient disembarkation.
A self-contained neonatal life-support unit, including ventilation, monitoring and temperature control, used for newborn transfers.
A propeller-driven aircraft used for shorter sectors, island airports and unpaved or short runways.
Tell us where the patient is. We do the rest.