Transcontinental Flight Provided For Baby With Rare Heart Condition

AeroCare Worldwide Air Ambulance recently performed an emergency, life-saving air ambulance mission for a critically-ill one-month-old infant. The infant was born with multiple complex cardiac defects and required special surgery to correct the defects. The surgery is so specialized that there is only one surgeon in the U.S. who will attempt the complex surgery to recreate a vital missing artery. That surgeon, Dr. Frank Hanley, and his specialized team are located on the other side of the country at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The patient was in Washington, DC., requiring a cross-country transport that could only be handled by a fixed-wing air ambulance jet like AeroCare operates.