• Military medicine · Jan 2025

    Operation Baby Drop: Lessons Learned From Military International Air Transport of Critically Ill Neonate.

    • Kaitlyn Mullin, Elizabeth Okonek, and Jeanne Krick.
    • Department of Pediatrics, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX 78234, USA.
    • Mil Med. 2025 Jan 16.

    AbstractMilitary medical transport is unique due to its frequent long-distance travel with limited supplies and capabilities. Military neonatal transport is perhaps even more niche, and descriptions in the literature are rare. A military neonatal team transported a 1-month-old former 26-week infant from a forward-deployed non-combat setting. Due to complications in-flight, the infant could only be safely transported from the deployed setting to the refueling stop. This report is a descriptive analysis of the transport, including lessons learned that may help future teams plan for possible complications that can occur during neonatal transports.Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States 2025. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

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