Transport (Critical Care)

Medical transportation for children with complex conditions, traumatic injuries or emergency needs requires specialized care. At Children’s Nebraska, our expert team provides safe transport for critically ill children, with providers specifically trained and certified in pediatric care.

Our transport teams stabilize critical conditions and manage medical needs during transit, ensuring your patient remains calm, comfortable and reassured while receiving seamless care from assessment to arrival. Care is coordinated throughout transport and upon arrival. In addition, our education and outreach teams focus on keeping children safe and healthy, bringing Children’s Nebraska’s advanced expertise directly to you when accidents or special transportation needs arise.

Call our Children’s Providers' Priority Line to request transport for your patient. When calling, please be prepared with the following information:

• Name of referring facility

• Referring provider name and call back number

• Reason for your call (Consult, Admission, Transport)

• Is this trauma-related? If yes, did the trauma occur within the last 24 hours?

• What specialty or type of physician are you requesting to speak with?

• What is the patient’s diagnosis or chief concern?

• Patient’s name (First, Middle Initial, Last)

• Patient’s date of birth

• Patient’s gender

• Patient’s weight (in lbs. or kg.)

• Is this a Project Austin patient?

• Patient’s primary care physician name

• Where is the patient? (indicate referring facility unit/room)

• Once the transport team is en route to your location, what is the best number to reach the provider caring for the patient?

We treat a wide range of conditions in children of any age, from prematurely delivered babies to preschoolers and adolescents. Our teams provide rapid-response care for traumatic injuries, complicated medical issues, fragile conditions and life-threatening diseases and disorders.

Children’s pediatric and newborn critical care transport provides highly skilled nurse practitioners, nurses, paramedics and emergency medical technician (EMT) teams to care for children of all ages.

For emergencies or complex medical transportation needs, our transport teams can reach children near or far by ground, helicopter or plane. Children’s operates and maintains a fleet of ground ambulances. Air Methods Corporation operates and maintains the EC130 helicopter and 1 Pilatus PC 12 fixed wing aircraft.

Children’s hospital pediatric and neonatal transport — a critical care ground, rotor-wing and fixed-wing transport service — is proudly accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems.