Royal Med receives attention from medical industry

The Royal Med air ambulance, equipped with state of the art, medical equipment was launched in 2003. The service is now in demand several times per week. At Arab Health, Royal Med's dedicated team of medical specialists were on hand to introduce the unique service.

Director of Royal Med, Dr Anders Nyqvist MD explained "Royal Med is able to bring eight years of experience with Amiri Flight whilst making the service available to a wider audience than before. We are always on standby for medical emergencies although each patient is thoroughly assessed prior to accepting any mission to ensure that the journey can be as safe as possible." Dr Nyqvist is typical of the high standard of staff in the Royal Med team. He is consultant in intensive care, anesthesia and general surgery enabling him to provide a range of services. Other staff include doctors, nurses and paramedics.

To ensure that the service is available twenty-four hours per day, the Royal Med crew works in two alternating teams. One team will fly on a mission whilst the other team remains on the ground assessing patients and preparing for the next journey.

With its own aircraft and a full time medical team the Royal Med service is unique in the Middle East. The teams fly to a range of destinations around the world including North America and Europe.

This year Royal Med is displaying at Arab Health for the first time giving visitors to the exhibition the opportunity to learn more about the service. This decision to exhibit is part of Royal Med's commitment to support the healthcare industry in the Middle East region and serving its community. Director of Sales and Marketing for Royal Jet Mr Ammar Balkar commented "We have a Gulfstream G300 exclusively reserved for Royal Med missions. We plan to increase the fleet and staff to satisfy the increasing demand in the market. Royal Med now accounts for 45% of Royal Jet business".
Royal Med's aircraft have custom-designed patient modules with independent electrical power supply and oxygen reservoirs, providing for fully equipped and functioning mobile intensive care units.

State-of-the-art airborne equipment on Royal Med aircraft enables the aero-medical teams to perform a wide variety of emergency procedures including mechanical positive pressure ventilation, capnography, pulse oyxmetry, humidified oxygen delivery, invasive pressure monitoring and non-invasive BP monitoring.
Added to those are continuous thermal monitoring and regulation, arterial blood gas analysis and blood electrolyte monitoring.

Cardiac monitoring includes continuous ECG rhythm strips, 12-lead ECG monitoring, as well as defibrilation (manual and self-automatic) and external transcutaneous pacing.

Royal Med aircraft are equipped with advanced life support drugs, and can perform controlled fluid deliveries and dose-controlled drug infusions. Neonatal care is enabled by the addition of a transport incubator.

To ensure that each patient's special needs are catered for on board the air ambulances, Royal Med's aero-medical doctors perform thorough pre-flight assessments of patients.

Royal Med is one of a very small number of air ambulance operators around the world that can not only offer the highest available standards of medical care in the air, but deliver it too.

Tempus and Medlink
In the air, the crew is greatly assisted by the Tempus 2000, a technological miracle of advanced mobile medical care. Tempus 2000 offers remote monitoring technology allowing cabin crew to assist a passenger who becomes ill onboard. Tempus connects all Royal Med flight with a MedLink Centre. MedLink allows all Royal Jet aircraft direct in-flight access to U.S. board-certified emergency physicians and specialists through the MedLink Service of MedAire. MedLink physicians in a hospital on the ground provide real-time, remote medical guidance and advice to aircraft throughout the world, managing approximately 60 in-flight medical emergencies a day.

Tempus 2000 can perform a wide range of patient monitoring, from non-invasive blood pressure and pulse oximetry to ECG, thermometry and capnometry, and transmit its findings to MedLink doctors on the ground, or even the patient's own doctor, wherever in the world he or she may be.