The need for critical-care transports has grown in recent years as medical technology has increased the life expectancy of the patients. Several developed countries have adopted critical care transport programs which consists team of specially trained professionals that provide care similar to an intensive-care unit, all inside an ambulance while transferring patients between the hospitals.
These medical professionals should be trained to deal with the constraints of care in an ambulance and the medical conditions they may encounter as many patients who need critical care transfers are on ventilators or receiving special intravenous medicines. Several smaller or rural hospitals that need to transfer their critical patients to advanced healthcare centers or other cities will be helped with such critical care transport teams as they may be able to provide more consistent care than rural…
