ICU-grade care,
25,000 feet
above the ground.
Pressurized air ambulances with rail-mounted ICU equipment and CFRN-certified flight nurses — moving critically ill patients across state lines while care never pauses.
// Same patient. Same care team. Three states closer to the surgeon.
Every system
checked twice.
Tap any hotspot to inspect the equipment bolted into our airframes. This isn't a configured cabin — it's a flying ICU.
Aircraft Specs
Medical Crew
A life moves
through the sky.
Every mission follows a documented flight plan — from the moment the phone rings to the moment the chart is handed off.
Call received. Clock starts.
A discharge coordinator at St. Francis Regional calls our 24/7 operations center. The patient is a 67-year-old post-CABG male, ventilated, requiring transfer to Cleveland Clinic for surgical revision. Insurance pre-auth is pending.
Flight coordinator initiates parallel workflows: aircraft crew notification, insurance authorization, receiving hospital bed confirmation, and ground transport coordination at both ends.
Insurance cleared. Aircraft assigned.
Our case management team reaches the insurance duty nurse. Pre-authorization confirmed in 19 minutes. A Learjet 45 configured for ventilated critical care is assigned — crew already at the base.
Patient weight, ventilator settings, active drips (norepinephrine 0.08 mcg/kg/min, propofol infusion), and family contact information are transmitted to the flight medical team.
Flight nurse reviews the chart.
CFRN Sarah M. and paramedic David K. conduct their pre-flight medical brief. Ventilator settings confirmed, drug kit packed to mission spec, IABP compatibility verified, weather filed.
Crew logs 847 combined ventilator transport hours. This mission: 1h 42min flight time, 3 active infusions, patient on mechanical ventilation with PEEP 8.
Wheels up from origin hospital.
Ground ambulance departs St. Francis. The medical team rides with the patient from ICU to tarmac — care is uninterrupted. Stretcher locks onto aircraft rails. Monitors transferred from rolling cart to airframe mounts.
Cabin pressurized to 8,000 ft equivalent. Ventilator settings re-verified at altitude. Oxygen reserve: 8 hours. Estimated block time: 1h 42min.
Cruising at 28,000 feet.
Patient stable. SpO₂ 96%, MAP 72 mmHg, PEEP unchanged. The flight nurse documents every vital sign to the minute. No interventions required. The receiving team at Cleveland Clinic is already standing by.
Real-time telemetry available to receiving physician on request. Mission log will be delivered to both sending and receiving hospitals within 30 minutes of arrival.
Patient handed to surgical ICU.
Wheels down. Ground transport meets the aircraft. Patient transferred to Cleveland Clinic SICU — bed-to-bed time: 5 hours 31 minutes. Mission log, vitals documentation, and medication reconciliation delivered simultaneously.
Bed-to-bed accountability documented to the minute. Zero gaps in care. The family, who drove through the night, arrives 20 minutes after the patient.
Your patient. Your timeline.
Every mission is documented to the minute — for insurance, for hospitals, for families.
Make it plannable.
Enter origin and destination to receive an estimated flight time, aircraft type, and medical crew configuration.
Ready when
the call comes.
Complete the three-step form and a flight coordinator will call you within 15 minutes — with aircraft availability, estimated cost, and a complete mission plan.
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