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October 2013
ria reports and schedule a site visit by its
survey team who ultimately conducts an
audit. The surveyor team is comprised by
medical and aviation experts with more
than ten years of industry experience.
Each standard is supported by measur-
able criteria to measure a program’s lev-
el of quality, thus Accreditation is based
on meeting a preponderance of the stan-
dards. Frazer says the two highest priori-
ties focus on patient care and safety of
the transport environment. Furthermore,
accreditation standards are periodically
revised to reflect the dynamic, changing
environment of medical transport with
considerable input from all disciplines of
the medical profession as well as federal,
state, and local governmental agencies.
That can be challenging for an orga-
nization which oversees accreditation of
providers throughout the world, where air
transport and patient care regulations can
vary from one country to the next. For ex-
ample, in Canada, to conduct flights by
night, regulations require the deployment
of two pilots while the Federal Aviation
Authority in American simply allows for
one pilot. Having recently returned from
a consulting project in Bangkok, Frazer
says that to transport a patient by air used
to take up to a week to secure permission
from the government, a process that has
since been narrowed down to 24 hours.
That same standard may not fly so well
in other places. Yet, with respect to air
regulations, the CAMTS audits allows
