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This conversion table is used for record keeping:

            

Type of flight                             

    

Note

1

 

Primary flight/HEMS flight (primary operation to an external location, the take off is indicated by EMS' operator upon emergency call)

2

 

Primary flight/HEMS flight (primary operation to an external location, the take off is indicated by EMS's operator upon the request of the land crew from our medical rescue service centre - e.g. responding to a traffic accident upon the request of the local EMS or transport of a person suffering from an acute myocardial infarction which is indicated by the land crew).

3

 

Urgent secondary flight/HEMS flight (urgent transport of ill or injured person from a health care facility to a different department; the patient is taken straight from the health care facility or transported to the helicopter by EMS land crew on the request of the health care facility, e.g. the acute myocardial infarction to the PTCA ward if the patient is at the medical or inpatient ward of the hospital already)

4

 

Secondary flight/ambulatory flight (scheduled transport of ill or injured person to a different department)

5

 

Secondary flight/ambulatory flight (transport of ill or injured person from the other department for follow-up treatment, e.g. transport to the spinal unit after the stabilization of patient´s state at trauma centre)

6

 

Primary flight/HEMS flight (transport of physicians and medical material, e.g. transplantation program)

 

For a detailed summary of HEMS rescue actions and ambulatory flights see here.