The Critical Care Transport Specialist
It's a trend that's hard to ignore. Emergency departments, hospital critical care units, physicians and nurses are depending on critical care air transport more every day. In most cases, those responsible for making the arrangements are burdened with many other pressing matters. Since there are so many variables for this type of transportation, the average individual may not be able to make the best choices because of lack of information. Who's operating the aircraft? Have the regulatory requirements been satisfied? Will safety and rapid response be ensured? Will the service be competitively priced with other air transport operations? If you're facing these questions, you should know about LifeFlight®.
LifeFlight® provides expert care for your sick, injured and disabled neonate, and child, throughout South Florida and the Caribbean, quickly and efficiently, with a highly skilled staff and advanced equipment in a medically configured helicopter.
Our advanced transport system is available upon request from any physician, hospital, nurse or other trained persons responsible for obtaining critical care transport and who has determined that a patient can benefit from tertiary care, or who would like consultation on the advisability of transport.
LifeFlight® can be a vital extension of your medical service capabilities.
Use of LifeFlight® provides you with the following benefits:
Reduces liability by decreasing your patient's out-of-hospital time
Provides higher levels of critical care en route
Saves costs over ground transport in many cases
Miami Children's LifeFlight® helicopter:
Miami Children's LifeFlight® helicopter is a 1997 Sikorsky S76 C+ which has been fitted to carry two patients and four medical crew with pediatric/neonatal critical care capability, including provision of nitric oxide and cardiopulmonary support.
The helicopter is capable of flying up to 300 miles without stopping to refuel and features the latest, most up-to-date flight instrumentation. It the most sophisticated air ambulance available, with an unsurpassed flight stability and safety record. The medical cabin allows easy installation and removal of a transport stretcher or isolette so that patients are not tilted during loading or unloading. Once the patients are aboard, the medical flight crew can work from swivel seats with full and unobstructed access to the patients from any angle, a benefit that is not available from any other aircraft. LifeFlight®'s cabin size offers a family member the ability to accompany their loved one to the receiving hospital.
As a mobile critical care unit, the medical configuration of the aircraft includes built-in oxygen and air, lighting controls, intravenous fluid holders and flight-team-to-hospital communications. LifeFlight® carries the most advanced life-support equipment, compactly arranged to ensure the maximum utilization of space. This specialized portable equipment includes state-of-the-art FAA-approved life support systems such as neonatal, and pediatric ventilators, a defibrillator with external pacemaker, intubation equipment, cardiorespiratory and hemodynamic monitors, infusion devices, transcutaneous P02 monitors, emergency medications, transport isolettes and any other equipment necessary for air management, IV therapy and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Additional Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Resources
Miami Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation
LifeFlight
Rapid Response Team
Meet the PCCM Team
LifeFlight® is the registered trademark of Hermann Hospital Foundation, Houston, Texas.