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Medical Repatriations
Returning ill or injured patients home with clinical escort and medical travel planning.
Description
Medical repatriation returns a person to their home country for medical treatment or care. The process involves coordinating with the local healthcare team, creating a medical treatment plan for travel, arranging logistics and providing a clinical escort.
Key features
- Patients must be cleared as fit to fly on a commercial flight with a medical escort
- Provider level (EMT, paramedic, nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant or physician) and number of providers set by the lead physician team
- Escorts bring the supplies needed for care, such as vitals equipment and wound care supplies
- The WECC, staffed 24/7/365 by EMTs and paramedics with a physician on call, monitors each case
- Family, friends or employers are kept updated throughout
- Specialist consultation from over 50 specialties can be added
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