Our helicopter, a Leonardo AW 169

Thanks to our helicopter, we can be on the ground quickly even in inaccessible or remote locations. We fly 24 hours a day, all year round and the helicopter can get airborne within 5 minutes (30 at night) of an emergency alert. Always with a full intensive care team on board.

We fly a lot, no other hospital in Sweden treats as many patients from other regions as we do at Uppsala University Hospital. If necessary, we can also use aeroplanes together with Swedish Air Ambulance to resolve the mission, if the distances are long or if there are restrictions for the helicopter.

Our helicopter is a brand new, customised Leonardo AW 169 and is equipped with the latest navigation and avionics technology. It is a twin-engine model, used as an ambulance or intensive care helicopter in many different countries. The helicopter is 12.9 metres long with room for two pilots, an intensive care stretcher, a passenger and our specialist team. When transporting premature or critically ill babies, the team consists of a neonatologist and neonatal nurse together with their transport incubator.

Our equipment is customised with integrated systems for medical devices, oxygen and air on both intensive care stretchers and incubators. All medical equipment is tested and flight approved, with at least 7,500 litres of oxygen and medical air compressors on board helicopters and aircraft.

Flight facts:

Flight altitude: Max 3000 metres 
The maximum speed is 280 km/h.

Uppsala - Malmö nonstop 2 hours and 30 minutes 
Uppsala - Eskilstuna 20 minutes

Always on board

• A wide range of medicines and liquids.
• Hamliton T1 Ventilator able to ventilate small children.
• Ultrasound and video laryngoscope.
• Tempus pro monitoring equipment with defibrillator.
• Up to 8 infusion pumps for drug administration.
• Erythrocyte Concentrate and Plasma.
• Vidacare EZ-IO intraosseous infusion system.

And of course, always a specialist doctor and nurse with extensive experience who are used to carrying out intensive care transports.

Intensive care stretchers

• 1000 litres of oxygen integrated.
• Hamilton T1 ventilator with end-tidal carbon dioxide measurement.
• Blood gas analyser I-stat.
• Ejector suction and battery powered suction Laerdal LCSU 3.
• Tempus Pro monitoring equipment with defibrillator.

If necessary, the equipment and staffing are expanded to be able to transport two intensive care patients requiring ventilators at the same time in the Swedish Air Ambulance Aircraft.

Intensive care incubators

Two incubators are available for the simultaneous transport of twins on our aircraft.

• Airborne incubator
• Ventilator Airborne TV1
• Philips X2 monitor
• Neopod humidifier
• BBraun Prefusor syringe pumps
• Aeronox NO dosing equipment
• Laerdal LCSU3 suction
• O2/air gas mixers
• 1000 litres of medical air integrated
• 1000 litres of oxygen integrated
• Undercarriage adapted for Allfa/Lifeport

Call us for transport

Do you want to get in touch with us to discuss the transport of a patient?

Ring oss på 018-200 112