Safe transfer and retrieval: the practical approach

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.