Training & Accreditation

You Can Count On Our Commitment to Excellence

When you select Angel MedFlight, you are choosing a highly-qualified, competent team of medical, aviation and administrative professionals, all dedicated to the care and safety of our patients.

• Our highly experienced medical personnel undergo a rigorous initial orientation and uphold stringent continuing education requirements on an annual basis.
• Flight crews are subject to completing simulator training in the type of aircraft they are operating, achieving the required hours in the particular aircraft, performing FAA checkrides, maintaining Class 1 medical, and fulfilling all other FAA requirements.

We continually strive to improve our patient’s experience and we perform a comprehensive quality review of every medical transfer. Angel MedFlight starts with the best and we make them better.

Angel MedFlight will at all times utilize aircraft that are FAA Part 135 compliant

Medical Staff Certifications

All Medical Personnel

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

RN – Additional

In addition to the certifications listed above, all RNs maintain the following certifications:

• Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN)

CEP – Additional

In addition to the certifications listed above, all paramedics maintain the following certifications:

• Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C) or Critical Care Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic (CCEMTP)
• Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)

Medical Staff Training

Initial Orientation (Didactic)

• Advanced airway management
• Altitude physiology/flight stressors
• Anatomy, physiology and assessment for adult, pediatric & neonatal patients
• Burn emergencies
• Cardiac emergencies & advanced cardiac critical care
• Environmental emergencies
• Equipment education including hemodynamic monitoring, pacemakers, AICD, central lines, IABP, pulmonary artery & arterial catheters, ventricular assist devices and ECMO
• High risk obstetric emergencies
• Mechanical ventilation and respiratory physiology for adult, pediatric and neonatal patients
• Metabolic endocrine emergencies
• Multi-trauma
• Neonatal emergencies
• Oxygen therapy in medical transport environment
• Pediatric medical emergencies
• Pediatric trauma
• Pharmacology
• Respiratory emergencies
• Stress recognition & management
• Survival training
• Toxicology

Initial Orientation (Clinical)

• Alternative airway management
• Invasive procedures on mannequin
• Neonatal intensive care
• Obstetrics
• Pediatric critical care
• Tracheal intubations (no less than 5 live, cadaver or dynamic HPS)

Continuing Education (Didactic)

• 100 hours continuing education per year
• Annual airway management lectures
• Hazardous materials recognition & response
• Infection control
• Stress recognition & management
• Survival training

Continuing Education (Clinical)

• Critical care for adult, pediatric and neonatal patients
• Emergency/trauma care
• Invasive procedure labs including a minimum of 5 intubations per year
• Labor and delivery

Flight Crew Training

Aircraft vendors retain full "operational control of all aviation procedures" on all medical flights carried out by Angel MedFlight. Please don't hesitate to ask any patient advocate at Angel MedFlight of the relationship between the two parties.

Captains

• Semi-annual simulator training (FlightSafety, Simuflite) in make and model aircraft being flown
• Maintain 1st class medical
• FAA checkrides

Co-Captains

• Annual simulator training (FlightSafety, Simuflite) in make and model aircraft being flown
• Maintain 1st class medical
• FAA checkrides