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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Ambulance has been created to perform life saving transport for sick infants and neonates from point of care at the very earliest time possible. The ambulances have specialist medical equipment and are staffed by trained medical staff who provide advanced neonatal care during transport. NICU transport vehicles provide constant monitoring and care to critical neonates until they arrive at a hospital or specialty center for care.
Essential Elements of Our NICU Ambulance Service:
Specialized Medical Equipment: Modern equipment on NICU ambulances Neonatal transport equipment found on NICU ambulances is the most advanced and they include:
Incubator: offers a controlled environment for neonates/hatchlings, maintaining an ideal temperature and humidity to avoid hypothermia and instill calmness during transit.
Cardiac Monitor: Follows the heart rate, electrocardiogram (ECG) and oxygen levels of the baby in real-time and informs the medical team in case of any signs of discomfort or anomalies.
Oxygen delivery: Cylinders of oxygen and delivery systems for appropriate oxygen concentrations for newborns in respiratory distress or failure.
Ventilator: This is a machine that assists the baby to breathe if they are not doing that well by themselves and maintains proper breathing while the baby is being transported.
Suction: To remove secretions from the airway due to mucus accumulation, meconium aspiration, or any airway obstruction.
Infusion Pumps: Delivers iv fluids, medications, and nutrition, maintaining hydration, nutrition, and medication durante transport.
Temperature Management: State of the art systems to control and manage the baby’s body temperature, keeping them safe in all conditions.
Oxygen saturation monitor (Pulse-oximeter): A device that may clip on your baby’s skin or has a wrap around cuff or tape with light sensors that measure the amount of oxygen in the blood.
Neonatal Monitor: Monitors the baby’s condition by recording the heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen concentration to keep them stable.
Respiratory Therapists: Trained in the resuscitation of newborns and in managing and monitoring an infant’s breathing while transporting the infant.
Skilled Medical Crew: NICU transports are staffed by medical professionals trained especially in the care of newborns: NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) Nurses: Nurses who are specially trained to care for sick newborns. They can perform sophisticated medical procedures and deliver specialized care while en route.
Neonatologist or Pediatrician: A doctor specializing in neonatal care may be on board to directly care for and oversee the condition of Neonates specially those who are very fragile or premature.
Paramedics: Trained to handle emergencies, perform basic life support and support patients with more advanced medical needs in the back of the ambulance.
Use Cases for NICU Ambulance: NICU ambulances are for babies who have special medical needs and could include:
Pre-Term Births: Transport of pre-term infants requiring high-dependency care (e.g. incubators, ventilators).
Respiratory Distress: Infants with respiratory compromise such as neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS), meconium aspiration and other conditions requiring assisted ventilation or positive pressure oxygen support.
Heart Disease: Infants with congenital heart defects or other cardiac disorders that require stabilization during transfer to a facility with specialized cardiac care.
Severe Infections: Infants with severe, life-threatening infections or sepsis need IV antibiotics, fluids, and continuous monitoring.
Trauma: Birth injured or otherwise critically injured neonates who require emergency assessment and care.
Neonatal Surgery: Patients requiring (or have required) surgery, for example, for congenital anomalies, who need intensive care in transit.
Continuous Medical Care During Transit: NICU transport ambulances guarantee life-saving care for infants throughout their transport. The medical staff keeps the baby's vital functions under strict controls, specialists in respiratory medicine ensure that he or she is properly breathing, personnel specializing in intravenous medicine take care of the drug line, and personnel dealing with medical emergencies see that everything goes normal during the transfer. This constant attention simply means that the baby is kept from slipping away and first-aider treatment can be administered on reaching hospital.
The NICU-transfers are very common cases of inter-facility transports; transporting the severely ill or premature neonates from one medical center to the other, using NICU-ambulances. This may require that newborns are transported from a nearby hospital to a specialized tertiary hospital with advanced medical or surgical capabilities for neonates.
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NICU ambulances contain special medical gear and are staffed by experienced neonatal care team members, ensuring babies in crisis are cared for on their journey to receive life-saving treatments from trained professionals in prenatal care. For premature babies, difficulty in breathing, medical problems present from birth and trauma, NICU ambulances provide the best treatment, making babies stable and ready for more treatment at the hospital.
We offer hospital-level newborn care off the hospital, when it comes to our NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) ambulances. Each one has current equipment for around-the-clock monitoring, swift intervention and full life support for infants. We have transport incubator (with warming), neonatal ventilator/CPAP, multi-parameter baby monitor (ECG, SpO₂, NIBP, EtC02), Infusion/syringe pumps, suction unit and emergency neonatal drugs. Each device enables us to provide uninterrupted, close care from pickup to handover. With a crew that includes NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) trained staff (neonatologist/pediatrician, NICU nurse, and respiratory therapist/paramedic), our ambulances offer safe, specialized critical care transfer of premature and low birth-weight infants, neonates with breathing difficulties, sepsis, birth asphyxia (HIE), congenital heart disease and surgical cases, hypoglycemia and many other conditions. Put simply, every unit is a fully mobile NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) – capable of stabilizing at the scene, providing advanced neonatal treatment en route and handing over swiftly to the appropriate hospital team.