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During 2021, from March to December, the first edition of a unique initiative took
place in Italy and, as far as is known, also in Europe—the Higher Education School
for Neonatal Transport. Details can be found by consulting their website (https://www.mcascientificevents.eu/transportationschool/ [Fig. 1]). The school was founded at the Gaslini Institute of Genoa in 2018 on the initiative
of Dr. Carlo Bellini, the director of Gaslini Neonatal Emergency Transport Service
and at the time secretary of the Neonatal Transport Study Group of the Italian Society
of Neonatology. The courses should have started in 2019, but, unfortunately, the pandemic
has made everything very complicated. In 2021, by renouncing the previously planned
presence in the classroom of students enrolled in the school and opting for an online
course, it was finally possible to start this adventure. The school had more than
80 students from all regions of Italy; the teachers of the school were colleagues
with proven experience in this special discipline. In the meantime, Dr. Maurizio Gente
has replaced Dr. Bellini in the position of secretary of the Italian Society of Neonatology
Study Group of Neonatal Transport, confirming the strong link with the school and
guaranteeing support and patronage for this educational initiative. The school has
set itself ambitious goals based on the experience of at least 30 years of neonatal
care, always in constant progress. Although neonatal emergency transport (NETS) has
also benefited from the medical and technological progress of all neonatology, it
has nevertheless maintained the characteristic of “old school medicine” with a skillful
mix between experience and art. Undoubtedly, old school has always been a rather thorny
issue as Robert M. Glover
indicated, addressing the dispute between “fanatical innovators” and those who “fanatically”
defended the authority of the ancients. Unlike the well-established habits of always
sharing medical decisions, NETS remains a much more solitary experience, an intimate
relationship between doctor and patient. An ancient profession, steeped in the youngest
of all medical disciplines, neonatology, technical and technological, aimed at the
future. We believe it is a very courageous choice to face the difficulties of mentoring
and teaching the neonatal transport. The positive experience of 2021 pushed the school
board (C. Bellini, M. Gente, and L. A. Ramenghi) to broaden the horizon, and in 2022
the school had taken on an international role, opening up to colleagues from all over
the world. The school is aimed at all functional profiles that gravitate in the wide
field of neonatology—physicians and nurses who are interested in intensive neonatology
and who are dedicated or who intend to dedicate themselves to NETS. The main objective
is to provide detailed and as up-to-date information as possible. The school's program
takes place in 9 monothematic meetings and deals with many significant points of neonatal
transport, both organizational and strictly clinical, that include the following:
•
Organization of the NETS
•
NETS equipment
•
Air transport and NETS
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The transport of a newborn with respiratory distress, with neurologic problems, with
heart disease and sepsis, and with surgical problems
