It isn’t every day that a newborn’s heart reaches 320 beats per minute, requiring the life-saving collaboration of two hospitals’ staff, and leading to a 155-mile helicopter ride from Duluth to Minneapolis. But that was how Baby Bennett spent some of his earliest days.
It isn’t every day that a newborn’s heart reaches 320 beats per minute, requiring the life-saving collaboration of two hospitals’ staff, and leading to a 155-mile helicopter ride from Duluth to Minneapolis. But that was how Baby Bennett spent some of his earliest days.
As coordinator of neonatal transport services, Andy leads the team responsible for the safe transfer of approximately 500 newborns annually to the pediatric health system’s neonatal intensive care units (NICU).
Baby Ellie spent 21 days recovering in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children's Minnesota after she was born with a rare condition that required immediate surgery. She's now home and all smiles.
Children’s Minnesota has added CCM Health in Montevideo, Minnesota, as a new Children’s Minnesota: Neonatal Virtual Care program partner.
Kris Karlsen, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, FAAN, is a board-certified neonatal nurse practitioner who authored The S.T.A.B.L.E Program, the most widely distributed and implemented neonatal education program to focus exclusively on the post-resuscitation/pre-transport stabilization care of sick infants.
Families in the Twin Cities north metro now have access to 24/7 neonatal experts providing care for even more prematurely born infants.
Transport service is available around the clock, seven days a week — the neonatal team is equipped to implement treatments such as nitric oxide and active cooling therapies immediately upon arrival at the hospital and during the transport.