TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Impact of stops for road traffic accidents on the inter-hospital transport of critically ill children
JO  - Emergency medicine journal
A1  - Raman, Sainath
A1  - Ramnarayan, Padmanabhan
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Transport of critically ill children has become necessary following centralisation of paediatric specialist services. Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS) retrieves critically ill children in the Greater London area. Our teams have had to stop during these journeys to assist in road traffic accidents or ill passers-by. We undertook a review of our practice over a 3.5-year period. Our teams had to stop on 12 occasions over this period amounting to an incidence rate of 1 per 959 ambulance journeys. Although this is an infrequent occurrence, the impact on the retrieved patient and service delivery could be significant. We would like to direct the attention of transport services to this problem.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1472-0205
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-202462
ID  - ref1
ER  -