This year, Queensland’s premier neonatal retrieval service, NeoRESQ, is celebrating a decade of emergency air and road rescues of our State’s most critically ill and premature babies.
So, what happened to those tiny battlers before 2015?
As RBWH Foundation artist-in-residence and best-selling author Nick Earls discovers, where there’s a will, there’s a way to transport the most premature patients.
So, what happened to those tiny battlers before 2015?
As RBWH Foundation artist-in-residence and best-selling author Nick Earls discovers, where there’s a will, there’s a way to transport the most premature patients.
Simply borrow a humidicrib, commandeer a nurse, jump in the Medical Superintendent’s car or call in Queensland Health’s charter air service. Just make sure you strap down the equipment, first!
“We just did it because we knew the need was there. We just did it.”
Dr David Cartwright PSM, Retired Director, RBWH Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
In one of the Foundation’s favourite 40 Strong Stories to date, Nick talks with the renowned neonatologist who believes it’s better to act first and apologise later, when tiny lives are in the balance.
