To prevent the need for later transfer to the specialist unit, it is better
to take deceased airborne patients upwards rather than downwards.....
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> From: Simon Carley[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 December 1998 17:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: death in transfer
>
> I was thinking more of the case when the patient actually died. No CPR in
> progress, ie. patient is an ex-patient.
>
> Simon Carley
> Anaesthetics / Intensive Care
> Stepping Hill Hospital
> Stockport
> England
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 21 December 1998 16:13
> Subject: Re: death in transfer
>
>
> >In a message dated 12/21/98 9:14:08 AM GMT, you write:
> >
> ><< If a patient died between units, should you carry on or return to the
> > sending hospital. >>
> >
> >.......it is surely a matter of distance and run time to the nearest
> >hospital.........the closest gets it? (It being the cardio-pulmonary
> arrested
> >patient!)
> >
> >Andy Thurgood
> >
>
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