Big Ideas For Moving Small Patients
This series of steps on paediatric transfers has been developed by the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS), London, including contributions from Cathy Roberts, Dr Linda Chigaru, Dr Gerard Manning and …
Course: A Journey Through Transfer Medicine
Non-Clinical Emergencies
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 …
Setting Up A Service & The Future
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 …
Service Preparation
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 …
Digital Transformation
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 …
Why Transfer Medicine Matters
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 …
Welcome To Week 4!
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 …
Overarching Principles
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 …
Drug Delivery
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 …
Helicopters & Planes
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 …
Military Evacuation Aircraft
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 …
Device Safety
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 …