Bed to bed Medical Repatriation
Organizing Travel with Medical Assistance
Each year many families pay out of pocket for emergency medical care in a foreign country.
But after all the medical bills, medical repatriation can be expensive too!
Every case is unique. Our team is dedicated to finding the safest, most affordable transport solution for your patient.
JET COMPANION organizes international patient transfers and medical repatriation missions worldwide on behalf of a wide variety of clients.
Our services are activated by:
- Families who want to bring home a sick person from abroad
- Hospital discharge planners who need to arrange an international medical transport
- Assistance center case coordinators organizing a return home by medical transport after hospitalization overseas
- Corporate or family offices arranging scheduled medical transport or emergency assistance for a sick or injured traveler
- Canadian government departments who are tasked with organizing the medical transportation of individuals in their care
Patients traveling to or from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Northern BC, the Rocky Mountains, Banff, Jasper or the Kootenays through the Edmonton or Calgary airports, can benefit from a flexible combination of our ground and air medical transport services, all under one roof!
What is a bed-to-bed repatriation?
A bed-to-bed medical repatriation (also called a bed-to-bed patient retrieval) means that we coordinate all the logistics of the medical transfer from the moment the patients is picked up at bedside, to the moment the patient arrives at the final destination. You pay one price that includes all the pieces of the puzzle.
Definition of Wing to Wing (W2W) transfer
When two partnering aeromedical teams collaborate on an international patient transfer, with the two planes meeting halfway through the journey, this is called a Wing-to-wing transfer. This approach help us reach extremely far destinations, or places in the world where access is restricted, for example war zones.
4 Medical Repatriation Options
Ground Stretcher Transport | Airport and Long Distance Transfers
Airline Seat with a Medical Escort | For patients who can sit up for 1 hour
Airline Stretcher | For patients who need to lie down for transport
Air Ambulance | Private charter for patients who require intensive care
International medical flights to Canada
It’s a misconception that patients transported on commercial flights only need basic support. We frequently transport patients who need:
- Bedrest or leg elevation
- In-flight oxygen
- Mobility support
- Toileting assistance
- Tracheostomy care
- Foley catheter care
- Ostomy care
- Tube feeding
- Injectable medication
- Cardiac monitoring
- Blood gas monitoring
- Insulin
- Reclining wheelchair
- Full lift assist
- Mechanical ventilation
- Sedation
- Pain and symptom control
- Management of anxiety and confusion
- Suctioning
- Chest drain
- Precautions against blood clots or seizures
- Spinal precautions
- Behavioral support and redirection
- IV fluids and medication
- Turning schedule
- Incontinence management
- Dressing changes