RT Book, Section
A1 Gomella, Tricia Lacy
A1 Eyal, Fabien G.
A1 Bany-Mohammed, Fayez
SR Print(0)
ID 1168355564
T1 Neonatal Transport
T2 Gomella's Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs, 8e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644818
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1168355564
RD 2024/04/20
AB Many  infants  are  born  in  a  location  where  definitive  care  is  not  available  for  their  condition.  These  infants  subsequently  require  transportation  to  a  higher  level  of  care.  The  conditions  requiring  transport  range  from  prematurity  or  hyperbilirubinemia  to  surgical  emergencies,  need  for  extracorporeal  membrane  oxygenation,  or  therapeutic  hypothermia  for  hypoxic  ischemic  encephalopathy.  The  transport  of  neonates  requires  specialized  providers  and  equipment  in  defined  neonatal  teams  (NNTs).  There  are  many  different  configurations  for  transport  teams.  Of  956  neonatal  intensive  care  units  (NICUs)  identified  by  Karlsen  et  al,  398  offered  neonatal  transport  services.  Of  335  respondents  in  this  study,  68%  were  unit-based  teams,  and  the  remainder  were  dedicated  teams,  either  stand  alone  or  hospital  affiliated.