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Many hospitals when presented with a critically ill child do not have the facilities or expertise to give them the best chance of survival, but also cannot risk transporting a child who might die en route.
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The PICU at St Mary’s has pioneered a retrieval service for children too sick to be moved from other hospitals without PICU facilities. A team of PICU doctors and nurses travelled via MICA (Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance) to any hospital within a 50-mile radius to stabilise and transport the child safely back to St Mary’s. The MICA was entirely paid for with funds raised by COSMIC.
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This model has now been adopted nationally.
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