Asian Assistance Ccat Program

Clinical Consideration in Aeromedical Transport (CCAT) is an educational program for those in the commercial airline, repatriation, and medical assistance industry. This seminar is specially designed for doctors and nurses, paramedics and other health care professionals who would like to acquire knowledge regarding medical evacuation via aeromedical transport around the world. The courses will address potential issues that paramedics could face during the patient transfer concerning special physical and psychological situations or physiological stresses, CCAT offers guidance on how to manage them. CCAT Thailand is designed to give a special opportunity for existing and potential professionals to gain, update, refresh and exchange knowledge and skills in transferring patients around the globe, and to achieve a deep understanding and professional approach to patient’s transfer with the guidance of experts in aviation physiology, retrieval medicine, intensive care, emergency medicine and prehospital care. The course is aimed for doctors, nurses and paramedics who are preparing to work as flight medical crew, and for all who are interested in working in the medical evacuation and repatriation services. The course will provide a thorough training in aeromedical transport of ill & injured, retrieval medicine, repatriation and aspects of aerospace medicine concerning medical air travel and addresses relevant issues of the special physical, physiological and psychological stresses which are important in the various transport environments, and describes the conditions which are susceptible during transfers by land and by air and how patients can be safely and efficiently carried. The course includes practical and interactive professional visits.