The Need.- Aeromedical Evacuation: A Historical Perspective.- Indications and Considerations for Emergent Evacuation of the Peacetime Casualty.- Combat and Operational Casualties.- The Means.- Military Casualty Evacuation: MEDEVAC.- Aeromedical Triage Support to Mass-Casualty Events.- Patient Staging for Aeromedical Evacuation.- Aircraft Considerations for Aeromedical Evacuation.- Critical-Care Air Transport: Patient Flight Physiology and Organizational Considerations.- Nursing Care in Flight.- Aeromedical Evacuation of Patients with Contagious Infections.- In-Flight Emergencies: Capabilities and Limitations.- The Patients.- General Surgical Casualties: Abdominal Wounds, Urogenital Trauma, and Soft-Tissue Injuries.- Air Evacuation of the Neurosurgical Patient.- Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Patients.- Ophthalmic Patients.- Peripheral Vascular Casualties.- Aeromedical Evacuation of Cardiothoracic Casualties.- Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation.- Orthopedic Patients.- Burn Patients.- Aeromedical Evacuation of Obstetric and Gynecological Patients.- Medical Casualties.- Pediatric Casualties.- Aeromedical Evacuation of Psychiatric Casualties.