The following criteria suggest use of AirCare for transport:
- Motor vehicle crash with:
- Compartment intrusion greater than one foot
- Fatality in the same vehicle
- Ejection of the patient
- Pedestrian/cyclist crash
- Prolonged extrication
- Evidence of significant head, chest, abdomen or pelvis injury
- Motorcycle crash at speed greater than 20 mph with ejection
- Penetrating trauma (especially to the head, chest and abdomen)
- Crush injury to head, chest, abdomen or pelvis
- Fall
- Adult: greater than 15 feet
- Child: two times the height of the child
- Multi-system trauma
- Major body surface burn or burn involving the face or airway
- Any spinal cord injury or unstable vertebral column injury
- Ground transportation more than 30 minutes
- Glascow coma scale less than 13
- Drowning or near drowning
- Any adult or pediatric critical medical illness requiring rapid stabilization and transfer