TRANFERING PATIENTS WHO NEED INTENSIVE THERAPY

First Aid Ambulance undertakes any incident for the transfer of patients or injured persons from or to intensive care units with a special fleet of vehicles equipped with mobile medical units, manned by specialized doctors, with a specialty depending on the incident, specially trained ambulance crew and intensive care nurses, able to offer first aid at all times during the transfer of patients to the hospital.

Since time is extremely important in emergency medical situations, First Aid Ambulance has developed procedures to be able to minimize waiting times and respond as quickly as possible and with maximum safety to any type of patient transfer case all over Greece, from each call to the company’s telephone call center, till the prompt appearance of the ambulance at the point of the event and the transfer of the patient to any health center.

Typical situations we face on a daily basis are:

• Patient transfer with acute myocardial infarction
• Transferring patient with a stroke
• Transfer of patient with severe bronchial asthma crisis
• Patient transfer with an acute dyspnea episode
• Transfer of patient with pulmonary embolism
• Transferring a patient with acute bleeding of the upper digestive tract
• Transferring a patient in a coma state
• Transferring a person with multiple injuries

Within the framework of first aid provision, the following is performed:

• Air passage and breathing with control of cervical spine
• Breathing support
• Circulation support
• Quick neurological assessment
• Quick general review
• Provision for pre-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation care
• Supporting vita organ functions of a patient