AirCare is staffed by trained flight nurses prepared to address a wide variety of life-threatening emergencies. When appropriate, a pediatric or neonatal nurse specialist joins the team. Each AirCare nurse has extensive critical care nursing experience, including specialized training in the areas of:

• Advanced cardiac life support
• Pediatric advanced life support
• Advanced trauma management
• Pre-hospital emergency care.

The AirCare fleet consists of two Aerospatiale AS350B helicopters, one stationed at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City and one a Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo.

AirCare Emergency Services include:

• Transporting seriously ill or injured patients from the primary receiving hospital to hospital providing a higher level of care.
• Responding to the scene of an accident or emergency, working with local EMS teams, and transporting the patient to the nearest appropriate hospital.
• Supporting Iowa's statewide perinatal transport system by rapidly transporting the neonatal team to a referring hospital to stabilize a newborn baby and/or transporting the infant to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• Assisting the University of Iowa Heath Care transplant program by transporting the organ retrieval tem, viable organs, and transplant recipients when appropriate.