Medical Launch Criteria

HealthNet Aeromedical Flight Teams can manage the following types of patients:

1. Cardiac patient with unstable angina.
2. Myocardial infarction.
3. Acute pulmonary emboli.
4. Current or impending heart failure requiring cardiologic care, angiography, angioplasty, Streptokinase or Tissue Plasminogen Activator treatment, surgical intervention,invasive monitoring or cardiopulmonary support.
5. Cardiac patient with malignant, refractory or life threatening arrhythmias uncontrolled in the referring facility or requiring permanent or temporary pacemaker unavailable locally.
6. Victims of neurologic trauma or cerebral vascular emergency requiring specialized diagnostic services or intervention not available locally.
7. Limb threatening emergencies.
8. Newborns with respiratory distress and requiring intensive care specialist unavailable locally. Transport in conjunction with Neonate transport team.
9. Newborn or pediatric patients requiring specialized surgery to correct life or limb-threatening congenital anomalies. In conjunction with neonate and/or pediatric transport team(pediatric-up to the age of 12 years).
10. Obstetrical patients at high risk of insult to the fetus or mother without specialized diagnostic or therapeutic care unavailable locally as judged by the patient's physician in consult with the Emergency Department physician and Obstetrical Service physician.
11. Patients suffering from thermal, chemical, or radiation burns exceeding fifteen percent of the total body surface area and therefore requiring the specialized care available only in a Burn Center.

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