Retrieval medicine: a review and guide for UK practitioners. Part 1: Clinical guidelines and evidence base

Comparison of factors associated with desaturation in prehospital emergency anaesthesia in primary and secondary retrievals

“…These missions are either airborne (Helicopter Emergency Medical Services) or road responses. A key intervention provided by EMRS for both primary and secondary retrieval patients is the provision of emergency anaesthesia by rapid sequence intubation (RSI) 9. The subspecialty of Pre Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) in the UK covers the practice of both primary and secondary retrieval, and PHEM training should include exposure to both types of retrieval.…”

Critical Care Transfer Quality 2000–2009: Systematic Review to Inform the ICS Guidelines for Transport of the Critically Ill Adult (3rd ed)

“…This is a worry considering that the number of transfers taking place in the UK is thought to be rising. 18 It is anticipated that there will be a further increase in the number of transfers if efforts to regionalise services go ahead; safe patient transport systems must be at the heart of any centralised system. 8 Notably, little is known about the current numbers of ICU transfers taking place today, with most papers still quoting an estimate of 11,000 transfers per annum taken from a postal survey carried out in 1994.…”

Supporting rural community-based critical care

“…In Australia, minimum standards for the transport of critically ill patients have been developed by the JFICM in conjunction with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine [30]. Similar practice guidelines for the safe interhospital transfer of patients have been proposed by the American College of Critical Care Medicine [31] and a review of retrieval medicine incorporating UK guidelines has recently been completed by Shirley and Hearns [32,33].…”