Air Ambulance Flights
for Liver Kidney Heart Transplant

​Air Ambulance and Medical Tourism
 
Air Ambulance Travel for Organ Transplant.

• Heart Transplant
• Liver Transplant
• Kidney Transplant

Liver transplant

When the liver fails
The liver plays a critical role in digestion, immunity, metabolism and nutrient storage. It is also the body’s ‘chemical factory’, producing important proteins, blood cells while breaking down toxins.

Another of the liver’s amazing functions is that it can restore itself when damaged. However, serious diseases can irreversibly destroy liver tissue and cause liver failure. Common causes of liver failure include hepatitis B, cirrhosis, cancer and autoimmune disease. When the liver fails, it can result in a range of serious conditions like jaundice, internal bleeding, muscle wasting and a build-up of toxins in the body. A liver transplant can help patients’ suffering from these conditions, regain their health and lead productive and fulfilling lives.  

The liver transplantWith new surgical techniques and effective medications, the success rate of liver transplantation is quite high. About 90% of liver transplant recipients continue to do well one year after transplantation.

A liver transplant can take place in several ways and the donated liver can come from either a deceased or living donor.

• Transplanting the entire liver from a deceased donor
• Transplanting a part of the liver from a living donor

Transplanting a part of the liver only is possible because of the liver’s unique ability to regenerate itself within a few weeks. When surgeons remove a piece of the donor's liver, the part that remains grows back quickly to its original size.

In adult to child liver transplant, a smaller part of the liver (the left lobe) is typically used. In adult to adult liver transplant, the larger right lobe of the liver from the living donor is used.

In Singapore, living liver donations can be done between relatives (e.g., spouses, siblings, parents, uncles, aunties, cousins, etc.). In deceased liver donation, the organ is retrieved from organ donors under HOTA.

Heart Transplant

Pre Heart Transplant Work up:In addition to complete the clinical examination and review of all investigations, specific to Heart Transplantation, we have an Interdisciplinary team consisting of specialists in Cardiology, ID, Nephrology, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Endocrinology, Cardiac surgery and an Anaesthetist., below are a comprehensive set of pre-operative investigations that are performed.

• An ICU based right heart catheter — to estimate reversibility or irreversibility of pulmonary pressure, manipulation of pulmonary pressure with a variety of drugs and assessment over 24 hours before listing for transplant.
• Use of myocardial PET to rule out possibility of viability quite a few patients have undergone high risk CABG with excellent outcomes as a result instead of blindly listing for transplant
• A full immunological work up quantitative PRA and full tissue typing
• An exhaustive infectious diseases screen to minimize infections post transplant
• Renal tests including measured GFR and FeNa to quantify the severity of cardio-renal syndrome
• Full endocrine profile

We risk score the patient to predict 1 year outcomes without transplant and list only when the benefits of transplant clearly exceeds the risk.
In the acute heart failure setting, we have a focused ICU management of these critically ill patient, we have access to ECMO, LVAD and have successfully done emergency heart transplant when a donor has been available.
Post-Operative Care:We have dedicated beds for patients who have undergone heart transplantation in our well-equipped Cardiothoracic ICU. Barrier Nursing is instituted to avoid infective complications.
Who will benefit from the evaluation?
Heart - when conventional treatment options have been ruled out

• Anyone with an EF < 35% in NYHA 2-3
• Anyone with NYHA 4 symptoms
• Massive MI with CHF post stent or CABG
• CHF post Valve Surgery
• Recurrent Angina ineligible for PCI or CABG
• Malignant Arrhytmias - on AICD (too many shocks, poor quality of life)

Kidney Transplant

A kidney transplant is used to treat kidney failure (end-stage kidney disease), a condition in which your kidneys can function at only a fraction of normal capacity. People with end-stage kidney disease need either to have waste removed from their bloodstream (dialysis) or a kidney transplant to stay alive.
Common causes of end-stage kidney disease include:

• Diabetes
• Chronic, uncontrolled high blood pressure
• Chronic glomerulonephritis — an inflammation and eventual scarring of the tiny filters within your kidneys (glomeruli)
• Polycystic kidney disease

Sometimes kidney disease can be managed with diet, medication and treatment for the underlying cause. If despite these steps your kidneys still can't filter your blood adequately, you might be a candidate for a kidney transplant.

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Medical Tourism and Organ Transplant  

Air Ambulance companies like us can help patient travel to the right medical and surgical centers whether it is for Heart Transplant to the United states, Liver transplant to Singapore or Kidney transplant to Sri Lanka and it will facilitate all appointments and take care of patient relative travel and stay.

We Provide Turbo Prop Jets, LearJets and Commercial flights for a quick transfer for patients traveling abroad for travel.

​All transportation are done in a professional manner.