#440 - 🔵 [PAS 2026] - What Does It Take to Build a Pediatric Transport Team From Scratch?

Dr. Kyle Willsey, pediatric critical care transport director at Cedars-Sinai, joins Daphna to discuss one of the least standardized corners of pediatric and neonatal medicine — critical care transport. With children's hospitals closing across the country and tertiary centers absorbing more of the patient load, the demand for safe, well-trained transport teams is growing at the same time that national standards remain nearly nonexistent. He shares the challenges of building a transport program from the ground up, presents early pilot data using the NASA Task Load Index to measure the subjective cognitive burden on transport nurses and respiratory therapists, and makes an open call for collaboration with anyone else navigating the same uncharted territory — because the transport leg of a critically ill child's journey should never be an afterthought.