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Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Pediatric Transport Research

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Johns Hopkins Pediatric Transport has implemented a comprehensive transport quality improvement program.

Ground and Air Medical Quality in Transport (GAMUT) metrics for benchmarking against similar size programs worldwide.

Our team has presented abstracts at national scientific meetings, published transport-related peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters, and received clinical and research awards.

Select publications are included below.

Research

  • Rozenfeld R, Noje C. Fate of Pediatric Transport Medicine Abstracts 2011-2020: What Predicts Publication Success. Air Med J. 2024 May-Jun;43(3):216-220
  • Philpott NG, Dante SA, Philpott D, Perin J, Bhatia P, Henderson E, Costabile P, Stratton M, Dabrowski A, Kossoff EH, Klein BL, Noje C. Treatment Guideline Nonadherence Pretransport Associated With Need for Higher Level of Care in Children Transferred to a Pediatric Tertiary Care Center for Status Epilepticus. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2023 Oct 1;39(10):780-785
  • Noje C, Duval-Arnould J,Costabile PM, Henderson E, Perretta J, Sorcher JL, Shilkofski N, Hunt EA. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation during Simulated Pediatric Interhospital Transport: Lessons Learned from Implementation of an Institutional Curriculum. Simul Healthc. 2023 Apr 1;18(2):117-125
  • Mangus CW, Canares TL, Klein BL, Costabile P, Monroe D, Noje C, Stevens MW. Interhospital transport of children with peripheral venous catheters by private vehicle: a mixed methods assessment. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2022 Jan 1;38(1):e105-e110
  • Noje C, Costabile PM, Henderson E, O’Donnell E, Bhatia P, Singh S, Hattab M, Anders JF, Klein BL. Diagnostic discordance in pediatric critical care transport: a single-center experience. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021 Dec 1;37(12):e1616-e1622
  • Steffen KM, Noje C, Costabile PM, Henderson E, Hunt EA, Klein BL, Nelson McMillan K. Pediatric transport triage: development and assessment of an objective tool to guide transport planning. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020; 36(5):240-247
  • Herrup EA, Klein BL, Schuette J, Costabile PM, Noje C. A national survey on physician trainee participation in pediatric interfacility transport. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2020; 21(3):222-227
  • Noje C, Bembea MM, Nelson McMillan KL, Brunetti M, Bernier ML, Costabile PM, Klein BL, Duval-Arnould J, Hunt EA, Shaffner DH. A national survey on interfacility transport of children in cardiac arrest. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019; 20(1):e30-e36
  • Jackson EM, Costabile PM, Tekes A, Steffen KM, Ahn ES, Scafidi S, Noje C. Use of telemedicine during interhospital transport of children with operative intracranial hemorrhage. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018; 19(11):1033-1038
  • Noje C, Fishe JN, Costabile PM, Klein BL, Hunt EA, Pronovost P. Interhospital transport of children undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a practical and ethical dilemma. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2017; 18(10):e477-e481
  • Noje C, Bernier ML, Costabile PM, Klein BL, Kudchadkar SR. Pediatric critical care transport as a conduit to terminal extubation at home: a case series. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2017; 18(1):e4-e8

Other Publications

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  • American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Transport Medicine, Guidelines for Air and Ground Transport of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients, 5thEdition (in press), Contributor
  • Noje C, Swain KA, Peterson AK, Shope E, Turi JL. Initial management and stabilization: Emergency department transport. In: Ungerleider RM, Meliones JN, Nelson McMillan K, Cooper DS, Jacobs JP (eds) Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children, 3rd Elsevier, Philadelphia. 2018; Chapter 42, 525-535
  • Noje C, Howard MB, Klein BK, Chapter 79.1 Interfacility transport of the seriously ill or injured pediatric patient. In: Kliegman RM, St Geme JW, III, Blum NJ, Deardorff MA, Ralston SL, Schuh AM, Tasker RC, Wilson KM (eds). Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 22nded, Elsevier (in press)