Triaging and stabilising a neonatal transport request — OSCE

Station brief (8–10 minutes)

A referring hospital calls about a 2-hour-old 34-week infant with worsening respiratory distress, an oxygen requirement, a temperature of 35.7 degrees and a glucose of 2.0 mmol per litre. You are the registrar receiving the call. Take the referral in a structured way, triage the urgency, describe the STABLE stabilisation you would perform, and state what must be corrected before the vehicle moves. Halfway through, the examiner reveals that the infant has also become progressively and then profoundly cyanotic and poorly responsive to oxygen — adjust the plan. State your thresholds and name the source. ^{[2] [5]}