Cleveland Clinic Critical Care Transport

Cleveland Clinic Critical Care Transport is the transport programme of Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. It is a hospital programme. It sends doctors, nurse practitioners, critical care nurses and paramedics to very sick patients by jet, helicopter or ground ambulance.

Services

The team works 24 hours a day and moves adults and children. The site lists these care skills.

• Full ventilator care
• Ventricular assist devices
• ECMO
• Intra aortic balloon pump
• Newborn isolette transport
• Point of care lab tests in transit

The site says the team makes more than 7,500 transports a year. It also runs a mobile stroke unit for Cleveland and nearby towns.

Aircraft and bases

The programme has four mobile intensive care units, based at the main campus, Twinsburg, Avon and Medina. It has two Sikorsky S-76 C++ helicopters. They are based at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland and Wadsworth Municipal Airport in Wadsworth. The fixed wing jet service is also based at Burke Lakefront Airport. The site names partners that help with transport, including PHI Air Medical.

Who it is for

The site says one call can bring the team to a patient anywhere across the globe. Doctors can use an acute transfer line for emergencies such as stroke, trauma, and newborn or pregnancy emergencies.

Facts

• Type: hospital programme of Cleveland Clinic
• Modes: jet, helicopter, ground mobile intensive care unit and mobile stroke unit
• Aircraft bases: Burke Lakefront Airport and Wadsworth Municipal Airport

Crew

The site says a flight has a clinical provider such as a doctor or nurse practitioner. The ground units are staffed with acute care nurse practitioners, critical care nurses and critical care paramedics. The helicopter cabin has room for cardiac assist devices and up to four medical crew.