Critical Care Transport Team
The critical care transport team at Children's Hospital & Medical Center is available 24 hours a day to provide state-of-the-art care and transportation to critically ill and injured neonates and infants less than two months of age. The team currently has the ability to transport these patients utilizing a dedicated ground ambulance designed and equipped for this level of care. Each Children's newborn/infant transport is staffed by a team consisting of a neonatal nurse practitioner and critical care nurse who are specifically trained in the care and transportation of critically ill infants.
The Children's critical care transport team is specially trained and experienced in stabilizing and transporting premature infants, newborns requiring immediate surgery, children in respiratory distress, children who have ingested poison, children with critical heart disease and any other critically ill or injured children. Team members also are certified in basic life support, pediatric advanced life support and neonatal resuscitation. Children's Critical Care Transport Team serves primarily Nebraska, western Iowa, northern Missouri, northern Kansas, eastern Colorado and South Dakota.
We are also developing a pediatric transport team and will soon be expanding our modes of transportation to include helicopter and aircraft. Currently, we can assist you in arranging any emergency transportation regardless of the patient's age, mode of transportation and destination.
Children's Hospital & Medical Center serves as the primary hub for the treatment and care of critically ill infants and pediatrics in the region. Critically ill infants and children who require intensive levels of support and monitoring are placed in our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) or Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where they will receive the highest level of care available in the region. Studies show that children who are treated by medical specialists trained in pediatric and newborn intensive care have better outcomes. The American Academy of Pediatrics' national guidelines recommend the use of a newborn/pediatric specialty team for the transfer of all patients meeting the following criteria:
- Any patient for whom ICU admission is anticipated at the receiving hospital.
- Patients with respiratory distress that may progress during transport.
- Patients with a recent life-threatening event, although stable at the time of transfer.
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