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You deliver a baby, things are fine for both mom and baby. How are you going to transport the two of them in your ambulance?
Let's take away having a sick patient here, mom or baby. If at all possible, that warrants a two ambulance response.
So what do you do? Skin to skin contact is important, but let's be real, that does not provide for a restrained infant at all. Can your ambulance take a car seat if it's not on the cot? Can you put mom not on the cot? What sort of devices do you carry on the ambulance to facilitate whatever it is you do?
I've been mulling this for a great long while and I still do not have much in the way of a definitive answer. For those of you who have car seats built into the airway chair, remember that those are not rated for newborn infants. Also remember that anything besides a traditional three point safety belt will make securing a provided car seat quite difficult.
Let's take away having a sick patient here, mom or baby. If at all possible, that warrants a two ambulance response.
So what do you do? Skin to skin contact is important, but let's be real, that does not provide for a restrained infant at all. Can your ambulance take a car seat if it's not on the cot? Can you put mom not on the cot? What sort of devices do you carry on the ambulance to facilitate whatever it is you do?
I've been mulling this for a great long while and I still do not have much in the way of a definitive answer. For those of you who have car seats built into the airway chair, remember that those are not rated for newborn infants. Also remember that anything besides a traditional three point safety belt will make securing a provided car seat quite difficult.