RE: stable neonate transports

["Jim Richardson" <JRichardson@vailresorts.com>]

>>> Patrice.Mauseth@HCAHealthcare.com 04/01/02 12:12PM >>>
>Our state laws require the team composition to include a neonatal RN. 
Our
>team feels that regardless of what the law reads, we would send the
RN
>anyway.  Neonates  can go downhill very quickly.  Their care is a
specialty.
>An RN would be the minimum we would send.

Having worked neonatal critical care transport for over 10 years as a
Paramedic, I would have to agree strongly with the above statement. A
neonatal nurse should be along on all transports there are just too many
variables and I could write pages of actual situations that have
happened over the years.

Good luck!

 Jim< 
 James Richardson, B.S, EMT-P
 Emergency Services Supervisor
 Vail Resorts, Inc


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