AirCare I is also staffed with a neonatal/pediatric specialty transport nurse 24 hours a day. This group of nurses resuscitates and stabilizes critically ill neonates and children up until their ninth birthday using air and ground medical transport and brings them back to University of Iowa Children's Hospital for definitive care. Medical conditions often encountered by this group of nurses include low birth weight premature infants, neonates with pulmonary hypertension, pediatric patients with septic shock, seizing children, and children who have respiratory distress. The specialty transport nurses have minimal certifications in PALS, NRP, ACLS, APLS, and an emergency pediatrics nursing course which allows them to provide the highest level of care. Aside from their air medical duties, the nurses assist in the neonatal and pediatric ICU, in the pediatric area of the Emergency Treatment Center and are called upon for difficult IV starts in the neonate and pediatric in patient population.