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Air Ambulance carries child from Louisiana To Arizona

AeroCare Medical Transport System, Inc. received a request from Phoenix Children",s Hospital in Arizona this afternoon to immediately evacuate a 14-month-old child from Baton Rouge General Hospital to Phoenix Children`s Hospital. The child has a chronic pulmonary condition and is breathing with a ventilator. The child was evacuated from New Orleans to Baton Rouge yesterday.

AeroCare Medical Transport System offers emergency and non-emergency fixed-wing air ambulance services throughout the world. Based in the Chicago area, AeroCare flies sick and injured patients both domestically and internationally. AeroCare`s aircraft are staffed with specially trained Flight Paramedics, Critical Care Flight Nurses, and Flight Physicians utilizing the latest biomedical equipment.

"We have been receiving a high volume of calls from the hurricane afflicted regions but this is our first confirmed mission. We anticipate doing several more flights in the immediate future," said Joseph D Cece, AeroCare`s Program Director and CEO. AeroCare launched an aeromedically equipped Lear 35A air ambulance staffed with a Critical Care Flight Nurse and Critical Care Flight Paramedic.