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THE NEXT FRONTIER
IN EMERGENCY
AEROMEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY
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Charné van der Berg, Netcare 911’s critical care operations manager, and Netcare 911 emergency care practitioner Sam Marais use the Vscan Air while en route to hospital.
E very moment counts in a medical assessment of the patient aeromedical space countrywide. The
life-threatening emergency,
in the shortest possible time.
handheld ultrasound technology has
such as the ones attended
also been deployed to Netcare 911’s
to daily by critical care
medical service [HEMS] and fixed wing
Gauteng.
paramedics and emergency medicine Netcare 911 helicopter emergency critical care ambulances based in
doctors who operate Netcare 911’s aircraft fleet are the first emergency
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aeromedical fleet and critical care medical services provider in South The Vscan Air is a wireless, pocket-
road ambulances. Clinical decision- Africa to use the Vscan Air for trauma sized, high-performance ultrasound
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making depends on the most accurate and cardiac emergencies in the machine manufactured by GE
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