Medical evacuation

Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to patients requiring evacuation or transport using medically equipped <a href="/facts/Air_ambulance/3Ntut0Cu">air ambulances</a>, <a href="/facts/Helicopter/chQF7H55">helicopters</a> and other means of emergency transport including ground ambulance and maritime transfers.
Examples include civilian <a href="/facts/Emergency_medical_services/K1uGpEH0">EMS</a> vehicles, civilian aeromedical helicopter services, and military air ambulances. This term also covers the transfer of patients from the battlefield to a treatment facility or from one treatment facility to another by medical personnel, such as from a local hospital to another medical facility which has adequate medical equipment. 
In Asia, according to Aeromedical Global (M) Sdn Bhd, medical evacuations via air ambulance can be performed via a single or dual stretched setup. According to patients medical condition, Emergency Air Ambulances will be equipped with relevant equipment (ventilators, Portable O2 Concentrator etc).

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Medical evacuation