This is particularly true at hospitals that provide care to critically ill patients transferred from other ICUs and at hospitals that provide specialized procedures to patients who subsequently become critically ill.
Any child who remained ill was transferred across town to a better-equipped hospital, the company said.
In 2007 the Dutch Ministry of Public Health required that all critically ill patients transferred between ICUs in different hospitals be transported by a mobile ICU (MICU).
The aim of the study was to determine whether the use of specialist transport personnel improves patient outcome at the receiving hospital for critically ill patients transferred to higher centers.
On Staten Island, where the chief of psychiatry at Richmond University Medical Center says psychiatric resources have been stretched to the limit, clergy members report that mentally ill people transferred to a large adult home in New Brighton from one that was washed away in Far Rockaway, Queens, are now showing up at church rectories, begging for socks and underwear.
As a part of a quality improvement project, this study examined the outcomes of critically ill patients transferred from other hospitals to a tertiary care ICU in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
PENNstar Flight provides all the aeromedical transport for critically ill patients transferred from referring hospitals to the HUP.
The study aimed to determine factors related to ICU mortality in critically ill patients transferred by Adult Retrieval Victoria (ARV) medical staff.
This cohort of mechanically ventilated patients undergoing interfacility, aeromedical transport confirms prior work in critically ill patients transferred via ground ambulance that major adverse events, including death, are rare.
This was concordant with an earlier study by Bellingan and colleagues [ 46] that showed a reduction in acute physiology disturbances and a reduced mortality in critically ill patients transferred by a specialized retrieval team.
If the passengers were found to be ill they were transferred to the local quarantine station.
