Emergency Services

• In utero transfer
• Indications for neonatal transfer via NETS
• How to arrange an emergency transport 
• Transport Team 
• How soon will NETS arrive? 
• Mode of transport utilized by NETS
• What will NETS require?
• Cost of emergency transport
• Parent transfer with NETS
  

What will NETS require?

• Completed NETS paperwork:
  • Perinatal History Sheet 
  • Consent for Transfer and Treatment Sheet (signed & witnessed)
    
    
• Photocopies of relevant records and pathology results (maternal & baby's)
  
  
•  X-Rays (copied, if original must remain at the referring hospital)
  
  
• Pathology specimens: (Appropriately labeled, double bagged and with a signed pathology request form completed):
  • 10 ml of maternal blood in a plain tube (name & signature of the blood collector MUST be included on the form)
  • Cord blood if available (in a plain tube)
  • Placenta if available

It is of great assistance to the NETS team if the following resources can be provided in a designated area of the nursery: 

• Adequate space for the NETS transport incubator (2 metres²)
• A pre-warmed radiant warmer with adequate lighting
• Access to two oxygen and one medical air wall outlets (or cylinders) with high flow metres attached
• Suction apparatus and a supply of Y suction catheters
• Additional power outlets (up to 4 required)
• A procedure trolley
• A sharps container & a rubbish bin
• Telephone (preferably portable/cordless)
• Access to an X-ray viewing board
• Extra stock of syringes and needles
• Supply of gloves (sterile and disposable)