Re: peds transport

[Lisa Heinz <flytrn117@yahoo.com>]

restraints within an isolette ARE possible (no joke!)
our Peds transport team uses them all the time......

Lisa

--- "James J. Misuraca"
<James.J.Misuraca@Hitchcock.ORG> wrote:
> In 12 years of pediatric transport I never saw the
> need to transport a child
> with NO restaints. Not once.
> The quality of pediatric restraint in the ambulance/
> aircraft setting has
> improved but is not a solved problem. Car seats are
> better than they were but I
> can not say they are the solution to our problem in
> this regard. Pediatric
> transporters again improve on this situation.
> Restriants within an isolette are
> a joke. We use a device called the "Pedi-mate" that
> straps to our cots. A sort
> of seat belt arrangement for the child greater than
> ?15kg.
>  Never the less I always secured my patients,
> hysterical at times but always
> with thier safty in mind.
> 
> Jim Misuraca, RN CCRN
> DHART
> 
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