Clinical transport guidelines
Disclaimer
These clinical guidelines represent the views of the Southampton Oxford Neonatal Transport team. They have been produced after careful consideration of available evidence in conjunction with clinical expertise and experience. These clinical guidelines relate to use in SONeT neonatal transport.
The guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient.
Clinical advice is always available from SONeT on a case by case basis. Please feel free to contact us regarding these documents if there are any queries.
Resuscitation and stabilisation
Resuscitation guidance
Thermoregulation
Developmental care during transport
Re-intubation in transit
Postnatal collapse
Respiratory
Meconium aspiration syndrome
Pneumothorax
Inhaled nitric oxide
Cardiac
Duct dependent congenital heart disease
Tachyarrhythmia with pulse
Cardiac arrest
Neurology
Therapeutic hypothermia network guidance - Nursing
Therapeutic hypothermia network guidance - Medical
Surgical
Surgical babies
Replogle tube insertion
Other
Drive through contrast study (OUH)
Transfers for end of life care
Air transfer of newborn
Neonatal transfers infection control