Highest quality care for the smallest patients – if there is one field of medicine that is particularly tough and demanding it is Neonatology.
Neonatology is at the crossroads of intensive care and paediatrics and involves the specialist care of newborn and/or premature babies.

For several years, the repatriation or medical transfer of a newborn baby to a specialist unit, invariably using an incubator, has been one of the specialities of EAA members LAR and DRF Luftrettung. Neonatal missions always include a neonatologist as well as a specialist intensive care children’s flight nurse/paramedic trained in APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support).

The missions is executed with state-of-the-art equipment, three incubators are within the permanent equipment from our members LAR and DRF Luftrettung and used on the EAA missions:

• 1 MediPrema N.I.T.E. incubator equipped with a Mobile Stephan R120 ventilator
• 2 Dräger 5400 incubators equipped with a Babylog 2000 ventilator.

These units complement other monitoring equipment and accessories specially adapted for young patients.