tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post6054908809415022977..comments2023-12-19T22:53:18.256-08:00Comments on the Happy Medic: ...for the code 3 transfer...The Happy Medichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521335229435386281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026214128770026952.post-89667433840156400992009-01-29T23:09:00.000-08:002009-01-29T23:09:00.000-08:00Yet again, exactly the same problems over in bligh...Yet again, exactly the same problems over in blighty.<BR/>We have however, managed to solve this on most occasions. Previously if we were doing an ITU or critical care transfer it was a case of arriving on the ward and then having to wait anywhere from 15mins to an hour whilst they get the patient ready for transfer, get notes together, change syringe drivers etc. Now, the hospitals and our Ambulance service have purchased 'critical care stretchers' for each of our main hospitals. These stay at the units and have ventilators, syringe pumps, O2, suction etc already attached to them. They lock into 90% of our ambulances and so the new protocol is that the units dont even request and emergency transfer until the patient is packaged on the stretcher and is ready to go. We then arrive, leave our stretcher in the dept and pick up the patient on the critical care stretcher. Seems to be working really well so far and is cutting down on the wait in the hospital.<BR/>One bad point though....Less down time in the hospital, so less chance of a quick trip to the staff restaurant!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com