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Intensive care · At home · Wherever you are

The ICU comes to your location.

Private medical infrastructure at the sole disposal of our clients: intensive care delivered on site, held for the full stay, invisible unless called.

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In short

Shadow ICU delivers intensive care on site rather than assuming a transfer to a hospital. Clinicians and equipment are placed within reach and held for the full stay, dedicated to a single person, and the response on dispatch is stabilisation under intensive care rather than first aid, followed by continuous intensive care en route if a transfer is required. It is designed for the places where standard care runs out: on remote islands the nearest intensive care unit is often hours away by boat or seaplane, at sea whatever is aboard is all there is until port, and beyond helicopter range there is no evacuation. Post-operative recovery, extended stays abroad and pre-existing conditions requiring continuous care are standing scenarios. Veltracon Medical also assesses and sets up medical infrastructure at private property such as villas, chalets and private islands.

Where standard care runs out.

On remote islands the nearest intensive care unit is often hours away by boat or seaplane, and resort clinics offer painkillers, not stabilisation. At sea, whatever is aboard is all there is until port, and beyond helicopter range there is no evacuation.

In cardiac arrest, stroke or critical trauma, survival is determined in the first minutes, long before public infrastructure arrives. We eliminate that gap.

We deliver intensive care on site.

What is in place

Intensive care on site

Stabilisation under intensive care, not first aid, delivered where you are rather than where a hospital happens to be.

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  • Dedicated to a single person

    Private medical infrastructure at the sole disposal of our clients, wherever they travel.

  • Held for the full stay

    Clinicians and equipment are placed within reach and held for the duration, dedicated to a single person and invisible unless called.

  • Post-operative recovery

    Continuous intensive care during transfer and recovery, including after a procedure.

  • Continuous care in remote locations

    Islands, yachts and safaris: the medical capability is placed at your location instead of assuming an evacuation that may not be possible.

  • Medical infrastructure for private property

    Assessments for the setup of medical infrastructure in remote places such as villas, chalets and private islands, so continuous care is possible where you live.

Questions

Medical infrastructure that follows you.

Every engagement begins with a confidential conversation about where you travel, who travels with you, and what capability needs to be in place before you arrive.

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Clinicians and equipment are placed within reach of where you are staying and held for the full stay. On dispatch the team is on scene in minutes and provides stabilisation under intensive care rather than first aid, followed by continuous intensive care en route if a transfer to a clinic is required.

Yes. Remote locations are a core case: at sea, whatever is aboard is all there is until port, and beyond helicopter range there is no evacuation, so the capability is placed with the family rather than dispatched to them.

Yes. Post-operative recovery with continuous intensive care during transfer is one of the standing scenarios, alongside extended stays abroad, pre-existing conditions requiring continuous care, and travel with children.

No. Shadow ICU is not an assistance hotline, an insurance product or an air ambulance on call. It is physical clinical capability, placed where you will be, before you arrive.

Yes. Veltracon Medical carries out assessments for the setup of medical infrastructure in remote places such as villas, chalets and private islands, which is particularly relevant for members with pre-existing conditions in need of continuous care.

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