MEDUCARE Pediatric Flight Team : Common Missions Requested

The Pediatric Flight Team serves referring hospitals and physicians throughout the state of South Carolina and transports patients from newborn to 18 years of age.  Commonly requested missions include the following:

  Pediatric trauma and burn emergencies
  Near drowning
  Various respiratory emergencies
  Cardiac emergencies

  Extreme prematurity
  Respiratory distress syndrome
  BPD
  Pneumothorax
  Meconium aspiration syndrome
  PPHN
  TE Fistula

 ABO incompatibility
 Shock/sepsis
 Hyperbilrubinemeia
 Various congenital cardiac defects
 Gastrointestinal emergencies
 Seizures
 Diaphragmatic Hernia