Advanced Life Support Group: Safe Transfer and Retrieval: The Practical Approach
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69 Available online http://ccforum.com/content/8/1/69 Safe Transfer and Retrieval provides a comprehensive review of the organisational and management strategy of the transportation of critically ill or injured patients. This book is quite original because it discusses the interhospital transfer risk management — and the number of interhospital transfers continues to rise. The book has different objectives: to understand why critically ill patients are transferred between hospitals, to understand the technical problems that may adversely affect patient care, to provide an overview of the principles of the safe transfer or retrieval of critically ill patients, and to describe the systematic Assessment, Control, Communication, Evaluation, Preparation and Packaging, Transportation approach for managing such patients. The organisational and management strategy are carefully developed, and the practical problems that may be encountered during preparation, packaging and transportation of patients are described. This book provides a very systematic and practical approach of this particular aspect of critically ill patients with different appropriate checklists. This book is in paperback format, written by 23 contributors from across the UK. It consists of 12 chapters covering the organisational and management strategy of the transportation of critically ill or injured patients. All the chapters are carefully reviewed to achieve a concise and comprehensive contents section. The book contains many useful tables and figures that support the text. More specifically, the book is divided into five parts. The first section introduces the subject by discussing the principle of the safe transfer and retrieval approach. The second section deals with the management of the transfer or retrieval according to the principles. The third section describes the practical procedures necessary, while section four provides an overview of the clinical care required during the assessment and stabilisation phases of the transfer. The appendices in the final section consider the legal and safety aspects of transfers, as well as the specific differences in helicopter transfers. Finally, this book has been developed to try to overcome the difficulties faced by healthcare professionals in organising and carrying out the transportation of critically ill patients. It provides a relatively concise and practical review of the organisational and management strategy of the transportation of critically ill or injured patients. This book is a valuable guide to interhospital transfer risk management. Competing interests None declared. Book report Safe transfer and retrieval: the practical approach Pierre Moine Département d’Anesthésie Réanimation, CHU Lariboisière, Paris, France Correspondence: Pierre Moine, [email protected] Published online: 24 September 2003 Critical Care 2004, 8:69 (DOI 10.1186/cc2355) This article is online at http://ccforum.com/content/8/1/69 © 2004 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Keywords: critically ill patients, helicopter transfer, injured patients, interhospital transfer, transportation Advanced Life Support Group: Safe Transfer and Retrieval: The Practical Approach. Edited by Driscoll P, Macartney I, Mackway-Jones K, Oakley P. London: BMJ Books, 2002. 137pp. ISBN 0-7279-1583-5 (Pbk)
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Transcript of Advanced Life Support Group: Safe Transfer and Retrieval: The Practical Approach
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Available online http://ccforum.com/content/8/1/69
Safe Transfer and Retrieval provides a comprehensive reviewof the organisational and management strategy of thetransportation of critically ill or injured patients. This book isquite original because it discusses the interhospital transferrisk management — and the number of interhospital transferscontinues to rise. The book has different objectives: tounderstand why critically ill patients are transferred betweenhospitals, to understand the technical problems that mayadversely affect patient care, to provide an overview of theprinciples of the safe transfer or retrieval of critically illpatients, and to describe the systematic Assessment,Control, Communication, Evaluation, Preparation andPackaging, Transportation approach for managing suchpatients. The organisational and management strategy arecarefully developed, and the practical problems that may beencountered during preparation, packaging andtransportation of patients are described. This book provides avery systematic and practical approach of this particularaspect of critically ill patients with different appropriatechecklists.
This book is in paperback format, written by 23 contributorsfrom across the UK. It consists of 12 chapters covering theorganisational and management strategy of the transportationof critically ill or injured patients. All the chapters are carefullyreviewed to achieve a concise and comprehensive contentssection. The book contains many useful tables and figuresthat support the text. More specifically, the book is dividedinto five parts. The first section introduces the subject bydiscussing the principle of the safe transfer and retrievalapproach. The second section deals with the management of
the transfer or retrieval according to the principles. The thirdsection describes the practical procedures necessary, whilesection four provides an overview of the clinical care requiredduring the assessment and stabilisation phases of thetransfer. The appendices in the final section consider thelegal and safety aspects of transfers, as well as the specificdifferences in helicopter transfers.
Finally, this book has been developed to try to overcome thedifficulties faced by healthcare professionals in organisingand carrying out the transportation of critically ill patients. Itprovides a relatively concise and practical review of theorganisational and management strategy of the transportationof critically ill or injured patients. This book is a valuable guideto interhospital transfer risk management.
Competing interestsNone declared.
Book reportSafe transfer and retrieval: the practical approachPierre Moine
Département d’Anesthésie Réanimation, CHU Lariboisière, Paris, France
Correspondence: Pierre Moine, [email protected]
Published online: 24 September 2003Critical Care 2004, 8:69 (DOI 10.1186/cc2355)This article is online at http://ccforum.com/content/8/1/69© 2004 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X)
Keywords: critically ill patients, helicopter transfer, injured patients, interhospital transfer, transportation
Advanced Life Support Group: Safe Transfer and Retrieval: The Practical Approach. Edited by Driscoll P, Macartney I, Mackway-Jones K, Oakley P. London: BMJ Books, 2002. 137pp. ISBN 0-7279-1583-5 (Pbk)
