Abstract

GONZALEZ CANOMANUEL, M.A.. The stranger autogiro ambulance 1933, a Spanish innovation predecessor in a decade to the first use of medical helicopter. Sanid. Mil. [online]. 2015, vol.71, n.2, pp.125-131. ISSN 1887-8571.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1887-85712015000200011.

The medical helicopter has revolutionized patient transport. It is the only means of escape leading healthcare where the sick, transferring it to quickly and easily without relying on roads or facilities. The Spanish participation in the creation of "rotary wing aircraft" for sanitary use, which the helicopter belongs, is unknown to the vast majority of professionals working in this sector never having been published. In 1920 the Spanish Juan de la Cierva and Codorniú invented the "autogiro" revolutionizing the way to fly and solving the problems of low speed flight. This device solved the limitation that health had fixed wing aircraft to pick up wounded by the need of a field ready for takeoff or landing. They were doctors, engineers and Spanish aviators who realized the possibilities in healthcare application of autogiro promoting their use in multiple forums since 1929. Juan de la Cierva own thought in health application of his invention and it is already used in 30 years for this purpose. The project gyroplane ambulance dates from 1933 describing the health modifying a four-seat gyroplane PA-19 Pitcairn Autogiro Company. The Spanish healthcare innovation autogyro forward in more than a decade to taken first use of a rotary wing aircraft for domestic use in 1944.

Keywords : Air medical transport; Helicopter transport; Aeromedical evacuation.

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