Helicopter Transfers – Need for Implication Assessment
| Autor: | Martyn Lovell, Salah Hammouche, Puneet Monga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 90:348-348 |
| ISSN: | 1478-7083 0035-8843 |
| DOI: | 10.1308/003588408x285775 |
| Popis: | On reading this article, we noted some similarities with our recent audit. We have received 37 helicopter transfers over the last 24 months. Our hospital built a helicopter pad to receive plastic surgical re-implantation patients; the orthopaedic department noticed it on a return to work after a weekend. We do not have neurosurgery on site but are otherwise well served by all specialties. Other local hospitals are not similarly blessed with such helicopter pads. The majority of transfers have been orthopaedic at 14 cases and plastic surgery at 2 cases. Unfortunately, four head injury cases might have been more fortuitously taken to a local neurosurgical centre which was flown over in one instance. One child was sent to a local paediatric hospital after initial assessment in the accident and emergency department. Twenty-eight cases were from out of the area and an equivalent of 15 trauma lists have been used for these outlying patient displacing our local patients with their more routine trauma. Thirteen cases were discharged directly from the casualty, one or two being bewildered by the transfer (anxiety provoking?) and some wondered how they would get home. We acknowledge that we have far fewer cases, but wonder if Swindon has received appropriate funding and staffing for this extra work. We have not. |
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