EAA missions are always crewed with a specialised medical team of at least 1 physician and 1 flight nurse or paramedic.
Other specialised 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/trauma 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 of 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 are continuously trained for the special medical requirements of air ambulance transports. This means postgraduate professional education in:
- 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-training (Crew Resource Management) for all medical crew members. We also offer fellowships with hospitals and ground ambulance operators.
EAA has close co-operations with well-known hospitals and institutions specialised in cases of infectious/tropical diseases, paediatrics and organ assist system transports.
For example we offer a specialized transport service for children with Extra Corporal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in cooperation with the University Hospital in Mannheim.
Multilingual skills:
Many crew members speak several languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch or Luxembourgish. English and German or French are mandatory.
Special cases:
Depending on the age or medical condition of the patient, other specialists like paediatricians, neonatologists, gynaecologists, obstetricians, surgeons, are available if required.