Abstract
Japan is an oceanic and archipelagic country. So importance of air medical transportation (AMT)in disaster medicine of remote islands had been pointed. However most of AMT are performed by helicopters and small fixed-wing aircrafts.So there exists limitation of loading capacities, ranges,intra-aircraft medical treatments. In case of a huge disaster in remote islands such as Okinawa, many critically injured patients can not be transported rapidly in current AMT system. As a solution,collaboration of ATM and hospital ship for disaster medicine of remote islands are proposed in this study. 12vessels of Japan Maritime Self Defence Forces possess emergency hospital function with 12 operation rooms and 174 beds. Tilt-rotor aircraft AW609 has a vertical take-off and landing capability and can fly until 1300km at 510km/hr with 9 passengers. So treatments and uses of large medical equipments such as respirator,PCPS,IABP are easier than conventional helicopters. For the practical realization,problems of medical equipments used during the flight such as human-machine interfaces, power supplies, electromagnetic compatibility should be further improved.
