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Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to wounded being evacuated from a battlefield, to injured patients being evacuated from the scene of an accident to receiving medical facilities, or to patients at a rural hospital requiring urgent care at a better-equipped facility using medically equipped ground vehicles ( ambulances) or aircraft ( air ambulances).
Examples include civilian EMS vehicles, civilian aeromedical helicopter services, and Army air ambulances. This term also covers the transfer of patients from the battlefield to a treatment facility or from one treatment facility to another by medical personnel, such as from a local hospital to a trauma center.
Usage examples of "medical evacuation".
In that hope she had requested medical evacuation to a normal-G world, a request quickly granted.
They finally identified a passenger who arrived by medical evacuation ship as Organa Solo's daughter, Jaina.
But there's no medical evacuation from Mars, and the crew will be leaving their appendices on Earth.
I'm afraid she doesn't meet the criteria for medical evacuation, and I don't think a flight that long would be the thing for her to do.
Already an irregular stream of ambulances and gringo-flown medical evacuation helicopters were flying back nap-of-the-earth, carrying the torn and bleeding to the medical facilities for hopefully life-saving surgery.
Of our original hundred, forty-six had been killed and a further twenty-two so badly wounded that they expected to be sent back to the fleet as soon as a medical evacuation ship could reach us.
They were instructed not to initiate any radio contact with company headquarters unless they had an emergency that required a medical evacuation.
A medical evacuation Jeep got me through disguised as a corpse all the way to Bikoki, an old rubber plantation settlement outside of Coquilhatville.