Field Guide for Air and Ground Transport of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients [Paperback]

Editor

Hamilton P. Schwartz, MD, MEd, FAAP, FACEP

Hamilton Schwartz, MD, MEd, FAAP, FACEP, is board-certified in pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, and EMS medicine. He is the Medical Director of the Cincinnati Children’s Critical Care Transport Team and Pediatric Medical Director for the Cincinnati Fire Department. He co-founded the Ground Air Medical qUality Transport (GAMUT) database and Quality Improvement Collaborative, an international transport medicine quality improvement collaborative involving over 400 member organizations. He is the associate editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Executive Committee of the Section on Transport Medicine’s two-volume policy guides on neonatal and pediatric transport medicine. He is also co-editor of the AAP’s new peer-reviewed transport research journal Transport Dispatch.

Editor

Caraciolo J. Fernandes, MD, FAAP

Dr. Caraciolo Fernandes is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics with Baylor College of Medicine and Attending Neonatologist at Texas Children’s Hospital since 1998, and the Medical Director for Texas Children’s Hospital’s Kangaroo Crew Neonatal Transport since 2008. He has authored or co-authored a number of book chapters and peer-review publications on a variety of topics in neonatology. With an avid interest in Quality Improvement, Dr. Fernandes attended the Intermountain Healthcare Advanced Training Program in Health Care Delivery in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2008, and is actively involved in a variety of quality improvement initiatives at Texas Children’s Hospital related to the transport and care of critically ill neonates. He served on the AAP Section of Transport Medicine Executive Committee.

Editor

Keith Meyer, MD, FAAP

Dr. Keith Meyer is the medical director for the LifeFlight Neonatal and Pediatric Transport Team at Nicklaus Children's Health System. He is a voluntary Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University and has served on the AAP Section of Transport Medicine Executive Committee since 2008 – and as Chairperson between 2014 and 2018.

Author

American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Transport Medicine

The AAP Section on Transport Medicine facilitates interactions among physicians and other providers involved in interfacility transport for the purpose of improving care of infants, children, and adolescents. The Section supports all transport team members by developing clinical guidance, providing education, facilitating interdisciplinary networking, promoting research, and advocating for providers at the local, state, and national level.