Guardian Air Capabilities and Equipment
Service and Responsiveness:
- Serving Arizona, the Native American Nations, Southwest U.S.
- Patient care supervised by four Flagstaff Medical Center-based medical directors
- Medical team accompanies patients bedside to bedside, from referring to receiving facility
- Extensive patient follow-up with referring and receiving facility
- Pursues third-party payors for Indian Health Services
- Accepts most insurance plans including Medicare and AHCCCS
- HMO/PPO provider and exclusive Premier HMO provider
- Certified provider for the Arizona Department of Health Perinatal and Neonatal Transport Program
Standard medical equipment:
- Pulse Oximetry — monitors the oxygen level in the bloodstream
- Volume and Pressure-cycled Ventilators — assists patients who are having difficulty breathing on their own
- External and Temporary Pacemaker — provides a regular heart rhythm and rate when the heart is unable to do so on its own
- IV pumps — used to deliver fluids and medications to the patient
- Cardiac Monitor and Defibrillator — electrocardiogram that allows the medical crew to evaluate a patient’s heart rate and rhythm
- Invasive Monitoring Capability — monitors critical physiological functions by means of a sophisticated arterial IV line
- C-spine Immobilization Equipment — provides stabilization of the injured neck and back
- Intra-aortic Balloon Pump — increases perfusion to heart muscle
- Sager Traction Device — provides stabilization of femur fractures
Maternal capabilities:
- In-flight fetal heart monitoring with printouts
- Complete line of tocolytic medications
- Preparation for in-flight delivery
Neonatal capabilities:
- Temperature-Controlled Isolettes — incubators for premature infants
- Transcutaneous Oxygen Readings — monitors oxygen and carbon dioxide in neonates, infants and small children
- Umbilical Arterial Pressures — monitors arterial pressures for arterial blood gas analysis
- Resuscitation Equipment
- Mechanical Ventilation
 Aircraft operated by Air Methods, Inc.
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