Course: A Journey Through Transfer Medicine

In addition to the usual equipment required for safe inter-hospital patient transfer, paediatric intensive care transportation has a number of specific equipment considerations… Airway Equipment Paediatric patients require appropriately sized …

The team brief is one of the most important aspects of a safe transfer. The team allocate specific roles for the day or mission. It is important to establish the …

In this interview we look at how to set up a new transfer service… Please note that the interview is extensive (23 minutes) and you may wish to return to …

This video was produced by the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS) – the largest paediatric critical care transport team in the United Kingdom. Below, Cathy Roberts, transfer practitioner and lead …

Critical care transfers may be carried out by dedicated transfer services or on an ad-hoc basis by any available team. In 2021, NHS England produced a service specification for Adult …

We hope you have enjoyed the course so far! In this final week, you will develop an understanding of specialist, unusual and remote situations and specific patient groups who need …

In this article, we hear from the North Central London Adult Critical Care Transfer Service (NCL-ACTS) about their experience of developing a transfer service and why transfer medicine matters. The …

Pal Bhusate is the CEO of Kinseed, a company specialising in digital transformation. In this video, she and Dr Riaz Aziz discuss how they produced a digital platform for a …

In this article, Director of Nursing at New Zealand Air Ambulance Service, Angela Coward, discusses helicopters, planes and the special considerations planning aeromedical transfers involves. There are two main methods …

Here we learn about the safe use of infusion devices in transfers and explore some of the issues that can arise with infusions during packaging and movement. There are 4 …

In this article we’ll be exploring some of the overarching tactics that can be deployed in a transfer service to minimise risks to staff and patients. Later in Week 2 …

In this step you will learn about the ability to transport sick or wounded personnel by land, air or sea by armed forces worldwide explained by German Airforce Hauptmann Stefan …

Equipment in transfer medicine has to be safe in any environment at any time… Developers design devices in a way that is safe to use regardless of the level of …