Re: stable neonate transports

["Wesley Copeland Sr., MICT, NREMT-P, CCEMTP" <wcemt@terraworld.net>]

Well here is an interesting piece of information to further stir the pot.
The hospital where I am based has the only NICU in the area.  Last month I
had to recert my NRP and took the class offered here.  There were aprox 15
people in the class.  Myself (a flight medic), a nurse practitioner from the
NICU, a couple of RT's from the NICU and the rest were RN's from the NICU
and L&D.  Sounds OK so far right!  During the skills stations only myself
and the Nurse Practitioner were required to perform infant intubation
because
we are were the only people in the course who are authorized to intubate
infants per Hospital / NICU policies and our protocols.  (Doctors, CRNA's
and Flight Nurses are also permitted , but none were in the class.)  It
should also be noted that the RN's and RRT's received an NRP Card even
though they were not checked off on intubation..  Now then, before all the
NICU nurses get up in arms, I'm not trying to say I'm a "neonatal master",
in fact I would prefer a neonatal team transport really sick babies (and 99%
of the time they do.)  I just offer this as food for thought and to fuel the
fire of discussion.

Wesley Copeland



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