Transport Guidelines
Guidelines for Maternal or Infant Transport
to Tertiary Care Centers
In collaboration with volunteer family practitioners, obstetricians,
neonatologists, and pediatricians in West Virginia, W. Va. Perinatal
Partners is developing guidelines for best practices in maternal-fetal
medicine and neonatology. The guidelines will reflect evidence-based medicine as
well as the input of volunteer physicians.
Each of the following headings will eventually link to an associated
set of guidelines.
- Immediate Care and Transport of the Sick Newborn
- The Transport Process
- Consultation and Transfer
- Arranging a Transport
- W. Va. Tertiary Care Centers
- Charleston
- Huntington
- Morgantown
- Out-of-State Tertiary Care Centers
- Response Time of the Team
- Transport Personnel and Equipment
- What to Have Ready When the Team Arrives
- Checklist for Neonatal Transport
- Activity of the Team in the Referring Hospital
- Parents
- Guidelines of Stabilization
- Assisted Ventilation, Resuscitation
- Oxygenation
- Temperature Control
- Glucose
- Acid-Base Status
- Shock
- Fluid and Electrolytes
- Infection
- Commonly Used Drugs
- Specific Stabilization Requirements
- Pneumothorax
- Diaphragmatic Hernia
- Esophageal Atresia/Tracheoesophageal Fistula
- Choanal Atresia
- Bowel Obstruction
- Omphalocele and Gastroschisis
- Follow-up
- Return Transport
- Authors
- Immediate Care and Transport of the High-Risk Mother
- Maternal Referral Process
- WV Tertiary Care Centers
- Charleston
- Huntington
- Morgantown
- Out-of-State Tertiary Care Centers
- WV Tertiary Care Centers
- Preparation For Maternal-Fetal Transport
- Contraindications for Transfer
- Maternal Transport Checklist
- Ambulance Transport - Basic Stabilization Requirements For All Patients
- Maternal Transport Equipment
- Reverse Transport
- Discharge Home
- Specific Stabilization Requirements
- PIH/Pre-Eclampsia/Hellp
- Premature Labor
- PPROM
- Bleeding
- References
- Nurses Transport Notes
Providers: Your feedback on these guidelines is welcomed.