Technology, time, and a new semi-sized ambulance are giving the tiniest of babies a better chance of survival.

Packed inside a semi-tractor trailer sized emergency vehicle is lifesaving equipment.

"Having an ambulance this big allows us to have all of the equipment we need all the way up from a newborn all the way up to someone who's 21-year-old," E.M.T. Trevor Miller-Evans says. "It gives us the ability to bring a fully mobile ICU with us to these other outlying facilities.”

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital got the custom designed Lifeline-5 five unit in January 2016.

The unit has enough seating for parents with special 5-point seat belts to improve safety. 

The truck body is a Ford F550 and the “box” is a 2017 Lifeline Ambulance. Corps president John Miscioscia said there are a number of new features compared to the 2009 model this ambulance replaces.

“It has a liquid spring suspension that is much smoother than the air ride,” he said. It should also be more reliable.

There are three-point seat belts on the bench inside, rails painted yellow for visibility, and room for five people. One of the seats has a built-in car seat for children. If needed, in addition to one person on the stretcher, another person may be taken to the hospital lying down on the bench.