Further improvements in the transport of high-risk neonates

The need for contimious thermal protection of newborns, especially of premature infants [13,15] has lead to the establishment of numerous trans-port arrangements between obstetric departments and Children's Hospitals [3, 5, 6, 16, 17]. We reported on the mobile resuscitation and transport unit used by us since 1972 in this Journal [8]. This arrangement establishes a satellite newborn inten-Fig. 1. Opened transport incubator. The tube System with the tube leading to and from the patient, the balloon, connection to the patient with short nasal tubes and an aneroid nianometer is shown in the magnification below. J. Perinat. Med. 4(1976) 132 Schachinger et al., Further improvement in the transport of neonates sive care unit with all its therapeutic possibilities. Mechanical Ventilation or drainage of a pneumo-thorax and continued infusions are thus mad