Team leader
Dr Steve Hancock is the Lead Embrace Consultant helped to set up the service and now runs it.
Meet Dr Steve Hancock
Dr Steve Hancock is the Lead Embrace Consultant helped to set up the service and now runs it.
The majority of the road trips Embrace makes every year are in Yorkshire.
Once the Embrace medics are on the road, they operate as a mobile intensive care unit but with a fraction of the resources of the hospital.
They use ambulances that have been specially adapted:
"From the outside they look like a normal 999 ambulance but inside they鈥檙e a mobile intensive care unit for premature babies and critically ill children.
"It鈥檚 the medical air that鈥檚 so important because new-born babies are actually quite vulnerable to having too much oxygen 鈥� and if you give too much oxygen to a premature baby you can damage their eyes and their lungs."
"If we need to move a child to Newcastle or London or to Glasgow then we can do that and because this is our job, this is what we do, it means that all the other doctors and nurses in the referral unit or receiving unit can carry on looking after the other patuients while we do the transfer.
"That, I think, is a real benefit 鈥� and the children arrive in better condition that if it was a non-specialist team.鈥�
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Preview: Children's Emergency Rescue
The team dedicated to transporting some of the UK's sickest children to medical care.
