Medical logistics

The medical transport service (including medical transport logistics; short MTD or organ transport service; short OTP) is a body of organizations (eg the Workers' Samaritan Federation, the German Red Cross, the Maltese Aid or St. John ) as well as some private companies and takes over the transport of blood products, organs, samples, medicines and medical equipment and personnel.

The service includes not only the actual transport, the search for blood products as well as the transportation coordinator, for example, organ harvesting. The transport is always performed by qualified personnel who are familiar in dealing with blood preparations, the operation of the transportation technology and the ride using of special and rights of way. Coordination is done via the command centers of the charities that are always available. Thus, the smooth completion of the order and the quick implementation is ensured. In large blood search or transport (eg abroad ) will be coordination on other operational centers (eg police control centers ) to ensure rapid execution of the contract, for example by police vehicles as piloting the MTD vehicles on conduct the quickest way through unknown cities used or / and destination.

A special feature of the MTD is that the effectiveness, ie, the fast and safe transportation, is constantly faced by the efficiency. The cost issue loses before the well-being, thus the MTD mostly the patient's life is meant to meaning. One difference, however, for private companies, where the cost to be covered. The extent to which the quality of service suffers from is unknown.

The vehicles required for the MTD are equipped with special technology. So they have public safety radio communications ( bad radio ), often on hands-free devices for mobile phones, satellite navigation systems, refrigerators for storage of certain blood products and special signaling devices. Externally, the MTD vehicles ambulance emergency vehicles or the vehicles of the emergency call home are very similar, in some cases, even the same vehicles are used for all tasks. They have then logically about features of both types of vehicles.

For longer transport distances are sometimes express trains as well as used for air transport aircraft and helicopters. However, these are then normally support of motor vehicles that pass the to be transported, or staff at the air units or take it over from them and transfer to final destination.

• Ambulance service