Dr Andrew Berry1
1NETS (NSW), Sydney, Australia
A request to transport a critically ill infant for whom conventional intensive care was failing presented unique challenges. They included being in Asia, on high frequency oscillatory ventilation, no available transport ventilator and a transport distance of 8,000km. The presentation will describe what was achieved, what wasn’t and what the outcomes were for the patient and family from a perspective 25 years’ later.
Biography:
Andrew is a Neonatal and Paediatric Critical Care Retrieval consultant, he is a Consultant and State Director with the Newborn & pædiatric Emergency Transport Service. He is also a founding member of ASA (and it’s predecessor, ISAS-Australasia) as well as a Fixed and Rotary wing Private pilot.