Telstra
Child Flight is the first service in the world dedicated
to bringing intensive care to critically ill or injured infants
and children. We remain the only service of this kind in
the southern hemisphere, operating primarily in NSW and ACT.
Our service is provided
to families free of charge and we aim to dramatically shrink
the time it takes to transport the children from the referring
hospital to the nearest hospital with a neonatal or paediatric
intensive care unit.
There are eight of these
hospitals in metropolitan Sydney, none in rural NSW and two
in the ACT. After the medical team at one of these bases
stabilises the child, we then transport them to an appropriate
hospital, where they will continue to receive the intensive
care treatment that they require.
The NETS team work to stabilise
the infant or child, ensuring they are fit for transportation
to the nearest paediatric intensive care unit. It can take
up to 12 hours to stabilise a patient, but this time varies
depending on each of the situations in which the Telstra
Child Flight team find themselves.
On average our helicopter
is called out more than once per day.
We are thrilled to have
made such a difference in so many lives, more than 6000 -
a milestone we were pleased to celebrate in January 2008.
Our
Values
Telstra
Child Flight endeavours to uphold our values in every
mission we embark upon. We are committed to:
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