Residency Program | Transport Team

	St. Louis Children’s Hospital offers the most extensive and experienced transport service in the St. Louis area, with specially equipped Mobile Intensive Care Units and air service.

The St. Louis Children’s Hospital Neonatal/Pediatric Transport Team was formed in 1979 as the region’s first pediatric emergency transportation service. The team transports 1,400 to 1,500 critically ill infants and children each year. Occasionally traveling as far as the East and West Coasts, the service routinely covers a 300-mile radius around St. Louis.

Every mission is staffed by a pediatric physician, nurse and paramedic. Some transports may also include a pediatric specialist, such as a cardiologist, neonatologist or respiratory therapist. The team travels by ground ambulance, helicopter, propeller plane or jet depending on distance and the condition of the patient. Three mobile intensive care units (MICU) specifically designed for neonatal and pediatric transports provide access to tertiary care for critically ill children.

Residents are accepted onto the Transport Team after successful completion of supervisory ICU rotations, Basic Life Support (BLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification, supervised transports, and recommendation by the directors of house staff training and the transport team.

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