Air ambulance Service for Neonatal Cases in the Philippines

Airgurus' medical flight team of critical care doctor and nurses took off from the hangar in Pasay City last August 24, 2011 for a series of medical flight missions. The first mission, according to air ambulance helicopter pilot Capt. Harry Lero, was to transport a premature baby with breathing problems from Bacolod City to Manila for advanced neonatal critical care.

Airgurus is the only air ambulance company in the Philippines that has a specialized neonatal transport team to accomplish such a mission. The work would not stop there. Capt. Lero said,  that after the first flight, the team flew  from Manila to Boracay to transport a patient with an orthopedic injury and flew to San Vicente, Palawan transport a child with a spinal cord injury resulting from a fall.

"Our company provides air medical evacuation for ill and/or injured babies, children and adult persons throughout the Philippines" he said. The company has staffed a remarkable group of critical care doctors, nurses and medics to provide excellent patient care, bed-to-bed service and customized care to meet the needs of patients and their family members. 

As the owner of the air ambulance company, Capt. Lero said he has been delighted with the response from the local communities in various regions as well as the top medical facilities in the country. The company has a home base in General Aviation Area, Manila Domestic Airport but will soon expand its business south of the Philippines in order to meet the need.

There are some clients namely doctors, hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, etc. down there with whom we have a regular, long-standing relationship. The company has transported a lot of patients including pediatric burn victims. We are repositioning our aircraft and a team so we can better service those existing customers and to offer service to other medical centers in various regions in the South.

Founded in 2006, the company currently operates a fleet of air ambulance aircraft that include fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. The difference between Airgurus and most other air ambulance services is that we transport patients who are stable, but need to be taken a substantial distance for specific and special treatments. The reason these patients use the service is because they can't travel by airline and may need immediate medical assistance.

The first mission was transporting the premature baby highlights the company's specialty in neonatal care. "Very often, the need for this transportation is created by circumstances related to special needs," Capt. Lero said. "We move a lot of neonatal cases from hospitals where they were born to facilities in Manila where they can get cardiac surgery."

Capt. Lero said his company prides itself on providing the highest standards of both care and transport operations. "Quality management is a cornerstone for us. There aren't air ambulance operations that provide services like this in the country."


1st Artistic Photo courtesy of Jonel Candelaria

Airgurus Air Ambulance: Saving Lives 24/7 in The Philippines

Airgurus Ltd. Co. launched early this year our 24-hours-per-day, 365 days-per-year medical evacuation / medevac services anywhere in the Philippines via the Airgurus Air Ambulance Helicopter services.

Acknowledging the needs of Filipinos during crucial medical situations, our Chief Pilot / President, Capt. Harry Lero added another aircraft for the fleet solely dedicated to our Air Ambulance Service.

With just one call away, every Filipino and foreign residents should know that that if an accident at remote areas (not accessible by larger aircraft requiring runways) or anywhere else in the Philippine Archipelago, a helicopter air ambulance will be able to save lives.

All Airgurus' choppers features state-of-the-art medical equipment and are the only helicopters with litter kit (double deck stretcher) in the Philippines... managed and maintained by highly-trained and experienced  medical flight crews. The same goes with our other aircraft. In the cramped space, our helicopters carry equipment, supplies and medications similar to those found in an intensive care unit such as intravenous pumps, a ventilator, cardiac monitoring and a defibrillator. With our litter kit, there's enough room for two patients if necessary, on stretchers.

Our medical flight doctor, flight nurse/paramedic bring complimentary skills... all are experts of providing medical care in the tight quarters of an air ambulance and knows intensive care units inside out.

To do the safest and dedicated Air Ambulance service in the Philippines, our 24/7 Airgurus Operations staff handles the emergency calls/queries then immediately coordinates/delegate information to our pilots. They then summon our 24/7 medical flight crews (consisting of a medical flight doctor and a flight nurse) and advise  aircraft maintenance mechanics on-duty to double-check aircraft, medical equipment and medical needs of a patient. Fastest response time is 30 minutes and everyone will be ready upon confirmation of a patient's scheduled transfer.

Airgurus does it professionally when it comes to Air Ambulance Services in the Philippines. We are the most experienced in the trade and industry as never a week goes by that we have not transferred patients needing urgent medical attention at apt medical facilities.

Hundreds and/or thousands of feet in the air (depending on what altitude is required per case), our medical flight crews have numerous tales to tell every week...  giving utmost medical care to head trauma cases, heart attack victims, delivering critically-ill children / babies, critically-injured collision victims, scuba diving accident victims and so many more. Doing air ambulance services is always exciting and challenging for our entire operations but it never leaves our minds that we have to deliver everyone throughout their golden hours... the hours between life and death.

The Philippine Archipelago's Emergency Room In The Sky

Airgurus' air ambulance services is the Philippines' Emergency Room in the Sky. 

We are the most experienced and most reliable air ambulance provider in the country having achieved the following:

• A lot of flying hours done - Doing critical air care especially on bad weather conditions is not easy. Practicing medicine in the sky presents its own difficulties. Only the same dedicated pilots and medical flight crew can pull it off as a lot of team work, understanding, experience and communication can help prevent things going wrong.

• A vast expertise on handling patients with various medical cases, injuries, etc. in tight quarters of an air ambulance - The depletion of oxygen and changing air pressure are always medical challenges thus; our highly-skilled medevac pilots and dedicated medical flight crew constantly communicates and always keep this in mind from take-off to landing.

• An in-depth intensive care experience by air. - The noise, vibrations and the temperature of the aircraft can present problems for the patient's health and comfort. Hundreds or thousands feet in the air in tight, sometimes turbulent cabins of a turboprop aircraft and helicopters, our medical flight crew gets to restart hearts, insert breathing tubes, deliver babies, etc. With our pilots' steady hands, these procedures are done smoothly and successfully.

We are the number one in the Philippines when it comes air ambulance service because of our reliability, fast response in operation and our own dedicated medical flight crew to provide critical air care to patients needing to be transferred to apt medical facilities. 

We are committed to providing patients with the highest level of aero medical care in the country. For more details, visit our website www.airgurus.com

AIRGURUS IS THE NUMBER ONE AIR AMBULANCE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Airgurus' Ltd. Co. is the number one (1) air ambulance and medical evacuation services in the Philippines. Air Ambulance and medical evacuation services are more life saving than any other mode of medical transport in the Philippines. Whether you are suffering from a heart attack, figured in a diving accident, had a mishap on the road or are injured while going mountain climbing, an air ambulance by Airgurus' SkyAid can indeed save your life whether you are indoors or traveling.

 
The Airgurus' SkyAid air ambulances are indeed a very useful form of medical transport today and it is the number one air ambulance service in the Philippines.

  
Visit the website www.airgurus.com or call Airgurus Ltd. Co. 24/7 Operations Center at +632 583 6337 / +632 854 4086 / +63 920 955 0897 / +63 917 596 6288 

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ON TRAUMA CASE: MEDICAL EVACUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

Airgurus Ltd. Co., the leading Aircraft Charter and Air Ambulance / Medevac provider in the Philippines recently sent its' SkyAid Medevac to Batac, Laog, Philippines for an emergency transfer of a 54 years old woman to a trauma center in Manila to provide her with the utmost medical care she needs. 

The woman was suffering from intracranial hemorrhage or bleeding within the skull and Airgurus immediately responded to the urgent request for her delicate airlift / medical evacuation that happened night time, last January 26, 2011.

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