
Clinical Capabilities
Boston MedFlight is a Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services (CAMTS) accredited critical care transport service and the only dedicated, licensed, adult, ground critical care transport provider in the region.
- Airborne Law Enforcement Association 2015 Night Vision Five-Year Service Award
- Air Medical Physician Association 2015 Medical Director of the Year - Suzanne K. Wedel, M.D.
- American Eurocopter 2013 Vision Zero Safety Aviation Award
- Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) 2013 Ground Transport Program of the Year
- Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) 2004 Program of the Year
- Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) 2018 Neonatal & Pediatric Transport Award Of Excellence
Clinical Patient Care Capabilities
Boston MedFlight transports critically ill and injured adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients with all types of medical, trauma, surgical, neurological, respiratory, cardiac, and obstetrical concerns. When Boston MedFlight is part of your care team, no matter the circumstance, you can be assured that we bring what you need most: excellence and expertise in patient care with safe and efficient transport of the most critically ill patients.
Our Clinicians
Highly-trained and experienced critical care nurses and critical care paramedics are on every transport we conduct, and are prepared to treat patients ranging from the smallest 500 gram premature babies to our oldest citizens. Our nurses and paramedics have, on average, over 15 years of critical care experience. The foundation of our clinical quality program is close collaboration with our receiving internationally-renowned academic medical centers. From ongoing clinical rotations by our teams in the various hospital areas, to close physician medical oversight and review of transport cases, Boston MedFlight is dedicated to remaining the premier critical care transport organization in the region and country. One of the hallmarks of this dedication is the Boston MedFlight support for a Chief Medical Officer, Associate Chief Medical Officer and seven Associate Medical Directors – a level of dedication to clinical excellence very rarely seen in modern critical care transportation.
Our Education
Our teams embody our value of quality as continuous learners. Drawing on the expertise of our Chief Medical Officer and Associate Medical Directors, our dedicated education staff and simulation center, and the resources of our seven consortium hospitals, our teams stay current in cutting-edge emergency and critical care medicine. We are fortunate to have access to the expertise of our consortium hospitals and partner hospitals in the community. In particular, those facilities offer us access to onsite clinical education that includes:
- Adult critical care units
- Anesthesia
- Burn/trauma intensive care unit
- Emergency medicine
- High risk obstetrics
- Interventional cardiology/cardiac cath lab
- Interventional radiology
- Labor and delivery
- Neonatal critical care unit
- Pediatric critical care unit
- Pediatric respiratory therapy
- Radiology
- Cardiac Surgery
Our Equipment
We provide high-quality, critical care to patients from the moment we arrive at the bedside. The heart of the team are our excellent clinicians, and we ensure that they have the best available equipment to provide critical care outside of the hospital. Our helicopters, ambulances, and airplane have identical medical equipment, including:
- Airway management equipment, including video and surgical airway devices
- Critical care monitor with invasive monitoring
- Inhaled vasodilators (epoprostenol and Nitric Oxide)
- The most advanced mechanical ventilator available (invasive and non-invasive)
- Helium/oxygen (Heliox) delivery (ground only)
- Intra-aortic balloon pump
- Multiple medication pumps preprogrammed with infusion library
- Transport isolette and ventilator
- Transvenous pacemaker
We are also proficient in managing patients supported by specialty medical devices from sending hospitals that we do not carry ourselves, including:
- Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenators (ECMO)
- Impella
- Ventricular assist devices