A child’s life is precious and should be treated as such. If your baby is born prematurely or has an illness that requires constant medical attention, likely, the hospitals in which they are getting treated may not be able to provide the necessary care. If so, you may be in a situation where you need to arrange transportation to a new medical facility. Luckily, you can turn to the attentive and dedicated air transport specialist for newborns at ICATT Kyathi Air Ambulance. We have experience and have received numerous industry awards for our commitment to excellence, including EURAMI accreditation and a gold rating from Argus. With ICATT Air Ambulance, you can be sure that your valuable children are in the most attentive and capable hands.
We at ICATT Air ambulance can offer your child a safe bed-to-bed service directly to the targeted hospital. Our intensive care transportation is a combination of a ground ambulance and an ambulance flight equipped with an intensive care unit’s medical equipment equivalent in a hospital. ICATT Air Ambulance, can transport babies in an incubator or isolated in a controlled environment that is as safe as your hospital’s NICU or PICU.
Let us see this article to know more about Paediatric Transport in India and a Neonatal Transport Guide.
Transporting Paediatric and neonatal patients in an air ambulance
A highly skilled and focused medical team using specialized newborn equipment is required to transport a newborn successfully. ICATT offers the most comprehensive range of newborn crib care in our neonatal intensive care unit. We use our Learjet aircraft fleet to safely transport newborns at low speed from domestic and international destinations worldwide. ICATT also provides transportation for family members and encourages parents to accompany their infant during the flight at no additional cost.
ICATT air ambulance offers comprehensive newborn services that offer comfort and serenity. Our team is ready and able to transport the youngest patients in an ICU comfortably.
ICATT neonatal and paediatric air medical transport services include:
- Transporting your child quickly and safely to the destination.
- Specialized flight crew and a trained medical team consisting of flight nurses for newborns, respiratory therapists and accompanying medical staff
- Complete medically configured air ambulance with all required equipment, including a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit, environmentally controlled low flow oxygen machine, isolette incubator, and neonatal ventilator
- Fixed-wing medical jet with an intensive care unit and long-range function that can fly in all weather conditions
- A 24-hour mission response centre works with highly qualified specialists who have access to medical specialists and consulting physicians.
- Medical approval assistance, hospitalization, ground transportation, commercial medical escort, bed-to-bed medical transport, and flight control
- Comprehensive medical air transport for newborns at the most competitive prices from Alabama, Ohio and Florida to over 150 countries worldwide
- If your child is in critical condition, they can only be transported from bed to bed with the highest protection from our services. During medical flights, transportation and transfers by ground ambulance, your child will be continuously monitored by experienced doctors and nurses using the latest medical equipment. The medical equipment we use to transport patients includes:
Our equipment
Our Infant Incubator Transport Incubator for babies is specially developed for flexible use and has excellent connectivity with the following devices:
- Hamilton T1®: A ventilator that supports even the smallest preterm infants Alere EPOC® – a device for analyzing blood gases, which determines the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood
- GE Vscan ™ – a device for sonography and echocardiography that can be used to detect complications as early as possible and visually display heart function at any time
- Corpus C3® monitor for continuous patient monitoring, equipped with ECG sensors, defibrillators, pacemakers, SpO2, NIBP and IBP, specially adapted for children
- Perfusor® compact S: Up to eight syringes for intravenous therapy
- Storz C-MAC® video laryngoscope and auxiliary aids for alternative airway management, specially adapted for children (e.g. laryngeal mask, QUICKTRACH® emergency craniotomy kit)
- AccuVein® and EZ-IO® – vein recognition systems and intraosseous access systems, especially for children
What can you expect during a medical flight?
- ICATT Air Ambulance provides expert medical services for newborns and children – both at home and abroad if your child needs to be transferred from one hospital to another.
- Each airline’s paediatric team has the training and experience to prepare them to provide the unique medical care they need to children. Our team consists of Registered Nurses who have many years of experience as neonatal intensive care nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
- When you choose ICATT Air Ambulance for paediatric aviation service, you choose one of the most trained and experienced newborn emergency teams in the world.
- Our team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assist you with your medical flight needs.
Conclusion:
If an older child is involved, a paediatrician and flight nurse will participate. For these patients, the ICATT has developed an SOP that explains the transport process so that children can relax under stressful circumstances.
We carefully consider our medical aircraft needed to transport patients, including consulting with doctors who will carry out the hospital’s treatment. Also, the decision to travel by ambulance will depend on your child’s health and the circumstances of origin and destination. We can explain in detail our best flight medical services for you if you contact +91-9701111156.
