Quality of interhospital transport of the critically ill: Impact of a Mobile Intensive Care Unit with a specialized retrieval team

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wiegersma, Janke S ^a   Droogh, Joep M ^a   Zijlstra, Jan G ^a   Fokkema, Janneke ^b   Ligtenberg, Jack J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Scheper Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AMBULANCE; APACHE; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART DISEASE; HEART RATE; HELLP SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTOXICATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MOBILE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AMBULANCES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT TRANSFER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79952048647     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10064     Document Type: Article

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