What Is a STAT Medical Delivery?

There are many companies that work in the Chicago courier service which offer medical delivery services as part of their total service package. Medical courier companies are an important part of the overall health care industry. These are specially licensed couriers that have the proper vehicles and training to transport medical materials. Normally, these types of deliveries proceed according to normal schedules, similar to how the rest of the courier industry works. However, there is also another type of medical courier service, which is known as STAT shipping.

STAT is also frequently known as emergency courier service. Typically though, the term emergency courier service is used to describe these types of deliveries when they are made in the business or corporate world. A STAT delivery means the same thing, but also specifies that the delivery in question is one which involves the medical industry.

STAT is a term that is often used in hospitals to mean that something needs to be done as fast as possible. Many medical terms are derived from Latin roots, with STAT being no different. The original word that the term is based on is “statim”. This means immediately in the original Latin. Anything which is required STAT has the highest possible priority, and the same thinking applies to STAT delivery services which move medical material.

Typically, a STAT delivery is one which is required fast because treatment depends on the delivery being completed quickly. This would be in situations such as when an organ needs to be shipped in order to be given to a transplant patient. Also, STAT service is sometimes used to move medical materials to disaster or emergency sites when on location treatment is required.

STAT service may be completed by either ground transport or by air. In many cases, air transport is going to be used because it is much faster than making deliveries by ground. Usually, the air vehicle that will be used in medical deliveries is the helicopter. Helicopters can take off with less notice than airplanes, and aren’t held to landing and taking off from large airports. Lots of large hospitals include landing facilities right on site so that cargo can be delivered and patients air lifted in. Ground transport will still be used in some situations, such as when a STAT delivery just needs to be made between two hospitals in the same city. The option used will always be whichever is going to result in faster deliveries.