AirMed International and ECMO Advantage complete first transport

(Birmingham, AL, March, 2010) - AirMed International, the leading U.S. air ambulance company, and Tennessee-based ECMO Advantage completed their first successful mission in early 2010. The two companies have formed a cooperative agreement to provide advanced life-saving medical equipment onboard AirMed’s aircraft with ECMO Advantage medical professionals assisting in the transport.

“Our first transport with AirMed was a tremendous success,” said Randy Bartilson, ECMO Advantage president. “With many hospitals in need of ECMO transports for their patients, we are confident that this partnership will continue to be a viable and efficient option for them."

AirMed International life-saving ECMO flight a success AirMed International flight and medical teams onboard the first ECMO mission.
In intensive care medicine, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an extracorporeal technique of providing both cardiac and respiratory support oxygen to patients whose heart and lungs are so severely diseased or damaged that they can no longer serve their function. An ECMO machine is similar to a heart/lung machine and is most commonly used in neonatal intensive-care units, for newborns in pulmonary distress, but it is also used for adults that, even with the use of a ventilator, need to be oxygenated until they are able to do the job with out assistance. One of the new uses is in adults with the H1N1 virus. ECMO treatment provides oxygenation until their lung function has sufficiently recovered to maintain appropriate O2 saturation.

About the air ambulance company AirMed International
 
AirMed International is the country’s leading air ambulance, chosen as exclusive air medical transport for the world-famous Mayo Clinic as well as a preferred carrier for the U.S. Department of Defense. AirMed is CAMTS and EURAMI accredited and operates a fleet of fully customized, fixed-wing aircraft, including the largest medical jet in the U.S., the Hawker 800. AirMed's strategic bases of operations in Alabama, Hawaii, Minnesota, Ohio, and internationally in Hong Kong, provide advantageous geographic coverage and rapid dispatch. AirMed International is the two-time recipient of the International Travel Insurance Journal’s “Air Ambulance of the Year,” and also created weatherturndown.com, an industry-wide website promoting air medical safety across the country. For more information, visit www.airmed.com or call 205-443-4880.
 
About ECMO Advantage
 
ECMO Advantage Corp brings a wealth of knowledge to the partnership by providing specialists with vast experience in supporting patients of all ages and disease processes on ECMO.  Founded in May of 2007, ECMO Advantage provides extracorporeal related consulting, training, staffing and equipment rental nationwide.  ECMO Advantage specialists are among the top professionals in the extracorporeal community and bring with them over 200 years combined experience in critical care and over 100 years combined experience in extracorporeal support. For more information, visit their website, www.ecmoadvantage.com.
 
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