Guidelines for Air and Ground Transport of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients

This essential guide provides guidelines and education for all health care professionals who make decisions about the emergency inter-facility transport of children. Includes new chapters on financing neonatal-pediatric transport programs and on marketing the service through benefits communication and training.

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Advances in the critical care of neonates, infants and older children, and optimal access to and utilization of regional pediatric intensive care services, require expert and timely interfacility patient transport. The goal of neonatal pediatric interfacility transport is to improve outcomes in critically ill or injured neonates, infants and older children who are not in proximity to a hospital that provides the required level of intensive care. This essential guide provides guidelines and education for all health care professionals who make decisions about the emergency interfacility transport of children.