EAA missions are always crewed with a specialised team of 1 physician and 1 nurse or paramedic.
Other specialist medical crew can be called upon, depending on the patient’s medical requirements.
Other specialist medical crew can be called upon, depending on the patient’s medical requirements.
Medical staff on the EAA missions must fulfil the following requirements:
Physician:
- Specialist status in anaesthesiology, internal medicine or general / traumatologic surgery or emergency medicine.
- At least one year fulltime intensive care experience and practice on ICU.
- Continuous medical education.
- Multilingual skills, at least English and German or French are mandatory.
Flight Nurse / Paramedic:
- Minimum 4 years experience as a Registered Nurse working in Intensive Care and/or Anaesthesia and/or Emergency Room and/or Paramedic with minimum 5 years pre-hospital and emergency medical work experience and intensive care transport education.
- Continuous medical education.
- Multilingual skills, at least English and German or French are mandatory.
Continuous medical education:
All staff is continuously trained for the special medical requirements of air ambulance transports. This means postgraduate professional education in e.g.
- Flight Physiology
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Advanced Paediatric Life Support
- Trauma Life Support
- Critical Care Medicine
- Critical Care Transport Medicine
- Crew Member Training
- Infectious diseases and hygiene
- Travel medicine
We offer regular full-scale-simulator-based CRM-trainings (Crew Resource Management) for all medical crew members. We offer also fellowships with hospitals and ground ambulance operators.
EAA has close co-operation with well-known hospitals and institutions in special cases of infectious/tropical diseases, paediatrics or organ assist system transports.
For example we offer a specialized transport service for children to Extra Corporal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in cooperation with the University Hospital in Mannheim.
For example we offer a specialized transport service for children to Extra Corporal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in cooperation with the University Hospital in Mannheim.
Multilingual skills:
Many crew members speak several languages English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch or Luxembourgish. English and German or French are mandatory.
Special cases:
Whenever needed according to age or medical condition of the patient other specialists (e.g. paediatricians, neonatologists, gynaecologists, surgeons) are available if required.
