life flight
Medical air transport
Life flight is emergency medical transport by helicopter or airplane, typically moving critically injured or ill patients to hospitals equipped to handle their conditions.
The term often appears as a proper noun for specific air ambulance services: The accident victim was airlifted by Life Flight.
Also used as a verb: They life-flighted him to the trauma center.
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- air ambulanceEmergency medical aircraft
- medevacEmergency air transport injured
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- emergency servicesUrgent public safety organizations
trauma · trauma center · rescue · first responders · paramedic · airlift · hospital · stretcher · critical · critical condition · urgent · golden hour · rotor · rotor blades · blades · landing · landing zone · touch down
- air rescuemedevac, air ambulance, helicopter rescue, airlift, medevac helicopter
- medical transportambulance, hearse, medevac, air ambulance, patient transport