Mobile Intensive Care Units - Medical Equipment

Life Air, Inc. utilizes state of the art medical equipment for Helicopter and MICU's. 

 For the precise infusion of critical care medications the Life Air, Inc. crews utilize the Alaris Medsytem III. With its accurate delivery system for intravenous, intra-arterial, epidural and subcutaneous applications, and secondary delivery of intermittent medications, fluid challenges or loading doses from each channel these pumps can assist the crews in the delivery of critical medications. The pump is equipped with an advanced dose rate calculation program, and built in drug library for better laitance of critical care drips.

 In the Air Medical and Critical Care Transport world venous access often dictates the difference between life and death. The EZ-IO® provides safe, simple, and immediate vascular access through the intraosseous space. With time literally against the patient in an emergent setting - the EZ-IO can be used to establish stable and secure vascular access in less than 10 seconds. Developed for both the pediatric and the adult patient - the EZ-IO has proven to be stable during transport and indispensible for the delivery of drugs, fluids or blood. IO is the proven standard for establishing vascular access when confronted with compromised critical care patients. In the absence of venous access – the EZ-IO places time back on your side. In situations like multi-systems trauma, airway compromise, burns, cardiac arrest the EZ-IO offers you an immediate solution to what was once difficult proposition. In fact, there are many Air Medical and Critical Care transport team now using EZ-IO as their first line solution, enabling administration of lifesaving drugs much earlier than previously possible with traditional peripheral IV placement.  In alert patients, the patented EZ-IO design reduces the pain of insertion. After insertion a slow injection of 2% Lidocaine can effectively block pressure sensors in the intraosseous space significantly reducing the pain associated with IO infusion.

  For the patient that is requiring mechanical ventilation the use of the Eagle Impact 754 ventilator assist the transport team in assuring the patient receives proper ventilation during transport. The 754 ventilator is capable of operating in four different modes, that are set depending on the patients needs  with its built in LCD display the crew members are able to monitor the digital bar graph of the patients breathing patterns in the event the crew will have to change settings in route.  This ventilator is certified for use by aeromedical services and is currently used by the United States Military.