Albuquerque Ambulance Service

Critical Care Transport

AAS provides ground transport for patients who require critical care treatment or monitoring while being moved between facilities.
Service is available throughout New Mexico 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

To request Critical Care Transport call: (505) 761-8200 or
Toll-free 1-855-841-7198.

A Critical Care Transport team includes two Critical Care EMT Paramedics (CCEMT-P) and an Emergency Medical Technician. The team has equipment and skills to provide:

• Mechanical ventilation for adults and children
• Invasive pressure monitoring (arterial lines, Swan-Ganz catheters and inter-cranial pressure monitoring)
• Advanced medication management
• Rapid sequence airway procedures
• Fetal monitoring

Consider Critical Care Transport for patients with the following needs or conditions:

• Patients requiring transport when air transport is not available
• Transfers to ICU, CCU, PICU, MICU, TSI or NSI
• Multi-system trauma needing transport to definitive care
• IV medication infusion that may require dosing adjustments
• Patients with invasive lines
• High-risk obstetric patients
• Pediatric patients at risk of cardiopulmonary or respiratory failure

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