Neo/Peds (NETS) Team

UVA Health's Medical Transport Network has a dedicated neonatal and pediatric team. Our NETS team is available to respond by helicopter via Pegasus Air and by ground in a specially designed ambulance. The team is available 24/7 and has an average mobilization time of less than seven minutes!

The team undergoes extensive training to be able to stabilize and transport critically ill children. A few of their capabilities include:

Hemodynamic Monitoring
Placing Umbilical Catheters
Inserting Small-bore Chest Tubes
Obtaining Point-of-Care Lab Work
Administer Inhaled Nitric Oxide
Provide High-Frequency Ventilation
Initiate and Continue Phototherapy
Simultaneously Transporting Two Patients

The standard crew configuration is a primary clinician who is a registered nurse with bedside NICU/PICU/Peds ED training, a secondary clinician who is typically a paramedic with specialty training and certification in neo/peds, and an EMS technician.

Primary Clinicians

Miranda Broyles, RN, EMT

Lesley Etheridge, RN, C-NPT, EMT

Dave Erickson, RN, CCRN, EMT

Don Giles, RN, CCRN, EMT-I

Kat Riedel, RN, C-NPT, EMT

Laura Watson, RN, C-NPT, EMT

Second Clinicians

Tim Braden, NR-P, FP-C

Paige Crenshaw, RN, NR-P, C-NTP

GJ Harvey, NR-P, C-NPT

Billy Massie, NR-P, CCEMT-P, C-NPT