Funding for this work was provided in part by Intermountain Life Flight and Primary Children's Medical Center.
Accepted for publication March 2006. Revised June 2006.
Note: Percussionaire Corporation had no editorial input in or influence on this manuscript.
About the Authors
Gina Honey received her bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Utah in 1992. She has served as an ECMO specialist and has done many presentations across the country on the use of high frequency ventilation during neonatal transport. She has been a neonatal nurse in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Primary Children's Medical Center for 14 years and a flight nurse for Intermountain Life Flight for 7 years.
Tammy Bleak has been a neonatal flight nurse for 20 years. She is the neonatal coordinator and equipment specialist for Children's Services at Intermountain Life Flight. She has consulted and taught high frequency ventilation in the transport setting to numerous transport programs.
Tracy Karp has been a neonatal nurse for 28 years. He is the manager of NNP Service at Primary Children's Medical Center and LDS Hospital, part of Intermountain Health Care. He is also voluntary faculty at the University of Utah College of Nursing. He has networked, consulted, published, and taught widely. He is grateful for the opportunity to influence neonatal care through these activities.
Dr. Amy MacRitchie is a member of the Division of Neonatology at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and has been practicing neonatology for 11 years. She completed her residency and fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center and then completed a masters of public health at the University of Utah. Her research interests include the basic science of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn and chronic lung disease of prematurity. She is also interested in clinical research, quality improvement, and long-term outcomes of premature birth.
Dr. Donald Null, Jr. is the medical director of the Neonatal Critical Care Unit at Primary Children's Medical Center. He is professor of pediatrics at the Division of Neonatology at the University of Utah. Dr. Null has been a leading researcher in high frequency ventilation for more than 23 years and was a key investigator in the development of the 3100 HFOV. He is also a founder of the annual Snowbird High Frequency Ventilation Conference, which will celebrate its 24th year in 2007. He was instrumental in establishing the ECMO program at PCMC, which began in December 2001. In 2002, Dr. Null was presented the first annual PCMC “Physician of the Year” award.
For further information, please contact:
Gina Honey, RN, BSN
E-mail: [email protected]
