Seattle Children's Critical Care Transport

Seattle Children's Critical Care Transport is a hospital transport team in Seattle, Washington. It belongs to Seattle Children's Hospital. It moves babies and children who need critical or specialty care. This is a coordinator with its own medical team. It does not say it owns aircraft.

Services

The team runs ground transport for newborn and child patients. It also coordinates air transport. That gives local providers one point of entry for every child transfer, by ground or by air. The team can give clinical care on flights that carry newborns outside Western Washington. The site says this applies to newborn patients only for now.

Seattle Children's says it is the only child and newborn critical care transport service in Western Washington that takes patients to any facility, not just its own hospital.

Who it is for

The page lists conditions such as prematurity, serious medical or surgical illness, heart conditions, breathing problems and patients who need ventilator support. It also lists patients who need medicine drips to keep blood pressure or other vital functions stable. A family member can often ride along in the ambulance or fixed wing aircraft. The pilot decides, based on safety, and the final choice is up to the team.

The team

The core team has critical care transport nurses, respiratory therapists and EMTs. Other members can include newborn doctors, child critical care doctors, heart intensive care doctors, emergency doctors and advanced practice providers. A transport coordinator links the caller with a supervising transport physician.

Facts

• Type: hospital transport team that coordinates air transfers
• Parent: Seattle Children's Hospital
• Area: Western Washington, with newborn flights beyond it
• Accreditation: the site announces full CAMTS accreditation for the transport team