UK-based The Children’s Air Ambulance (TCAA) has announced 2023 as its busiest year since the service started over a decade ago.
The TCAA specialises in paediatric and neonatal care through the high-speed transfer of critically ill babies and children, flying them from one hospital to another for specialist care via its clinically designed helicopters, which provide a flying intensive care unit for babies and children.
In 2023, TCAA transferred the highest number of patients in its 10 years of service. Working alongside its 11 Clinical Partner Teams, the lifesaving service took to the skies 200 times – saving 296 hours 34 minutes of vital patient time being out of a hospital environment and 694 hours 54 minutes of valuable NHS clinician’s time.
The charity marked significant milestones as it undertook its first Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) transfer, leading to three further ECMO transfers. TCAA also launched England’s first incubator on a rotary-wing aircraft in December 2022.
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