4th Edition Transport of High Risk Infants 2018

Key Topics

• Professionalism
  • Adverse events during transport - how can we learn from our mistakes?
  • How can we optimize pre - and post transport communication with referring hospital?
  • Indications for high risk transport of neonates - can they be standardized?
  • Safety issues for the patient and the transport staff - parents on board?
  • Key performance indicators in neonatal transport - what is really important?
  • Triage and risk assessment before, during and after transport. What works?
• Skills
  • Specific challenges on neonatal transports in helicopters and fixed wing flights
  • Professional and personal qualifications needed to carry out neonatal transports?
  • Specific ABCDE challenges during transport (immaturity/prematurity, IUGR, twins, septicaemia, meningitis, convulsions, IVH, HIE, malformations, CHD, CDH, gastroscisis, MMC, ECMO etc.)
• Human relations
  • How do we recruit, train and re-certicy transport personnel?
  • Pros et cons in part-clinical/ full-time transport teams
• Equipment
  • Transport incubators - compressing a level III/IV NICU into a portable unit on wheels
  • Packing the bags - what should we bring?
  • Transport vehicles - is there a perfect solution?
• Research & development
  • Research in neonatal transport - what is needed?
  • Unsolved problems in neonatal transport - potential for improvement, identification of areas for innovation?

Who should Attend

Health care professionals engaged in high-risk neonatal transports, including:

• Neonatal trainees
• Neonatologists
• Neonatal intensive care nurses
• Paediatric intensivists and anaesthesiologists
• Nurse practitioners
• Respiratory therapists
• Clinicians
• Perfusionists and researchers
• Decision makers interested in acute neonatal retrievals
• Medical directors