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Transporting critically ill patients
British Journal of Nursing, 1995Some 10000 patients a year are moved to or between intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK (Royal College of Anaesthetists, 1989). This figure looks set to increase considerably with plans to further develop regional ICUs already under discussion.
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AIR TRANSPORTATION OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
American Journal of Psychiatry, 19541. The literature pertaining to management of neuropsychiatric patients during transportation by air is reviewed. 2. Methods employed by the military services including standard operating procedures are presented. 3. Reactions to air transportation of approximately 2,100 different patients making 2,879 patient-flights are reported.
B A, STRICKLAND, C, FERRIS
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Helicopter transportation of burn patients
Burns, 2002Analysis of 437 consecutive acute burn patients transported to our burn center revealed 339 transported by ground and 98 by helicopter. There were 18 air transport patients from within a 25-mile-radius, and 80 flown further than 25 miles. Mean age was the same in all groups (P>0.05).
H, Slater, M S, O'Mara, I W, Goldfarb
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Mucociliary Transport in ICU Patients
Chest, 1994The objectives of this study were to determine the bronchial mucus transport velocities in ventilated ICU patients and to study the possible role of impaired mucus transport in the development of retention of secretion and pneumonia.The patients were studied prospectively in a convenience sample trial.The study took place at a university hospital ...
F, Konrad +3 more
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Transport of Critically Ill Patients
Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, 1992Critically ill patients are transported within and between hospitals on a regular basis; thus, transport of the critically ill is a component of most intensivists-practice. The motivation for these transports lies in obtaining diagnostic or therapeutic services not available at the bedside (intrahospital transport) or not available in the sending ...
R E, Fromm, R P, Dellinger
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Patient Transport and Brain Oxygen in Comatose Patients
Neurosurgery, 2010Transport of critically ill intensive care unit patients may be hazardous. We examined whether brain oxygen (brain tissue oxygen partial pressure [PbtO2]) is influenced by transport to and from a follow-up head computed tomography (transport head computed tomography [tHCT]) scan.Forty-five patients (24 men, 21 women; Glasgow Coma Scale score < or =8 ...
Edward W, Swanson +7 more
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Transporting the overdose patient
Hospital Aviation, 1989Abstract A patient presented to the emergency department with a history of poisoning or drug overdose can be a serious management dilemma. The toxic emergency may range from a life-threatening situation which demands immediate resuscitative care to a stable clinical condition that may, in time, become unstable.
Michael Dubin, Donald Kunst
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Intra-Aircraft Patient Transport
Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2002M, Shamir, O, Hadash
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Jun J Mao,, Msce +2 more
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