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NETS
For the past 27 years the Newborn Emergency Transport System (NETS) has served our NICU and many hospitals throughout the State of Virginia as an organized system of emergency response, stabilization and transport for infants referred to our NICU for critical infant care. The NETS Team has a proud history that includes transport of over 7,000 infants, logging almost 1 million miles in doing so. The team, which started as a physician/nurse team responding by ambulance, has grown over the years to an RN Clinician, transport nurse, transport respiratory therapist and EMT team that responds in one of two highly specialized Critical Care Transport vehicles, by air in UVa's Helicopter Pegasus, or by contract fixed wing aircraft.
Along with the Perinatal Continuing Education Program (PCEP) the NETS Clinicians provide outreach education and ongoing transport reviews at the hospitals we serve. Each year the team also sponsors a day long educational seminar for our staff and the staffs of hospitals throughout Virginia. Here at UVA the Clinicians frequently assist our own NICU Staff as Unit leaders, at Resuscitations, and at infant diagnostic procedures in areas of the hospital distant form our NICU. For many families in crisis the NETS Team is their first encounter with UVA. The team prides itself in being the 'front door' to our University and in the ability to bring calm to many a critical situation. The Clinicians are Bob Capito, Jane Dwyer, Audrey Porter and Jo Scott. We are all available to you at 1-866-NETS UVA (our emergency referral line) or at 434-924-9853 (our Office). While there is every attempt to transport |
Today our specialty service transports over 300 infants each year and logs over 40,000 miles in doing so. In conjunction with the Neonatologists at UVa who serve as our medical control, we bring state of the art newborn critical care to the community. We do so with the capabilities to move more than one infant at a time, with Nitric Oxide for infants with suspected pulmonary hypertension, with arterial blood gas monitoring, and in vehicles that provide safety and comfort for the infants and the team. NETS also works closely with the Virginia Children's Heart Center providing transport care to infants referred to them and to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.