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Life Guard International
Rapid Air Medical Transportation of Organ Transplant Recipients Life Guard International, Inc., also known as FlyingICU, provides comprehensive emergent and non-emergent air medical transport services for patients throughout Nevada, the United States and the World. Life Guard’s services include medical escorts, commercial airline stretcher transports; and medical transports aboard specially equipped private aircraft. In other words, Life Guard can care for and transport any patient from the very simple to the most complex critically ill or injured anywhere, anytime. One example of Life Guard’s service is providing rapid air medical transportation of organ transplant recipients to specialized transplanting facilities. Prior to the availability of fixed-wing air medical transport, Nevada transplant recipients were forced to live in the immediate vicinity of the facility performing the transplant procedure. That is because the time allotted to arrive to the transplant facility is on average three to five hours from the time the call is received. With such a small window of opportunity, in order to ensure a successful transplant operation, each and every minute is critical.
Life Guard International makes it possible for these patients to remain in the privacy and comfort of their own home. Once an organ is available, Life Guard can then fly the patient to the transplant facility within the limited transplant time window. How is this possible? Once placed on the organ waiting list, the organ recipient or his/ her insurance company notifies Life Guard that the patient has been placed on the list. Life Guard then arranges for the patient and family to visit our facility and learn about the urgent transportation process, the aircraft; and how to best prepare for the call when the organ is available. When the patient is notified that the organ is available, he or she then immediately meets Life Guard’s medical crew and its aircraft. The patient is then flown to the predetermined airport nearest to the transplanting facility and then transported the rest of the way by ground ambulance. Our mission is to deliver the highest quality medical care focused on the patients’ needs, yet cost effective. That is why Life Guard also offers to Nevada’s organ recipients a membership program, created to help offset
the out-of pocket air ambulance cost not covered by health insurance. This membership provides patients with peace of mind knowing that the flight will not create extra financial hardship. Licensed and accredited, Life Guard International truly does provide “MEDICAL CARE ON A HIGHER PLANE.” For more information visit www.FlyingICU.com.
LOCATION Life Guard International 145 E. Reno Ave. Ste. E7 Las Vegas, NV 89119 888.359.6428 lgii@flyingicu.com
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