The Quality of transport of adult critically ill patients during inter hospital and intra hospital transfers in a tertiary care facility

The Quality of transport of adult critically ill patients during inter hospital and intra hospital transfers in a tertiary care facility

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Introduction: Critically ill patients are in a dynamic and often precarious physiological state.Adverse events are frequently encountered during transfer of them.A prospective audit was conducted to assess Easter Decorations the quality of inter and intra hospital transport of critically ill adults in a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka.

Methodology: All adult critically ill patients transfer in and out to MICU and ETU Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura were studied for a period of three months.A questionnaire based on The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) guidelines utilized as it is the latest guideline available revised in 2019.Results: Out of 60 transfers analysed, serious adverse events such as cardiac and respiratory arrests were encountered.

Conclusions: The overall quality of the transfer process was End Cap Set found to be suboptimal, necessitating proper training in defective areas.