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Short-term outcomes and mortality after interhospital intensive care transportation: an observational prospective cohort study of 368 consecutive transports with a mobile intensive care unit.
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- Nurses versus physician-led interhospital critical care transport: a randomized non-inferiority trial.Intensive care medicine · 2016Trial
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- [Physician-assisted interhospital transfer-an analysis from Schleswig-Holstein].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2025Article
- Adverse Events during Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients: A Multicenter, Prospective, Observational Study (I-TOUCH Study).Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2023Article
- Examining Predictors of Early Admission and Transfer to the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2023Article
- [Interhospital critical care transport].Notfall & rettungsmedizin · 2023Article
- Emergency Interhospital Transfer of Patients With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Call 9-1-1-The American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Program.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
- Safety during interhospital helicopter transfer of ventilated COVID-19 patients. No clinical relevant changes in vital signs including non-invasive cardiac output.Respiratory research · 2022Article
- The QUality of Interhospital Transportation in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine (QUIT-EMR) score: a cross-validation study.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Collective Critical Care Ambulance: an innovative transportation of critical care patients by bus in COVID-19 pandemic response.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Collective aeromedical transport of COVID-19 critically ill patients in Europe: A retrospective study.Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine · 2021Article
- Transportation of patients with severe respiratory failure on ECMO support. Four-year experience of a single ECMO center.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2020Article
- Incidence and Risk Factors of Clinical Deterioration during Inter-Facility Transfer of Critically Ill Patients; a Cohort Study.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2020Article
- Impact of Prehospital Mobile Intensive Care Unit Intervention on Mortality of Patients with Sepsis.Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation · 2019Article
- Interfacility patient transfers in Lebanon-A culture-changing initiative to improve patient safety and outcomes.Medicine · 2019Article
- Interprofessional two-man team approach for interhospital transport of ARDS-patients under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a 10 years retrospective observational cohort study.BMC anesthesiology · 2019Observational
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- High incidence of adverse events during intra-hospital transport of critically ill patients and new related risk factors: a prospective, multicenter study in China.Critical care (London, England) · 2016Observational
- Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Intractable Pulmonary Insufficiency: Practical Issues and Future Directions.BioMed research international · 2016Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate short-term outcomes and mortality after interhospital transportation of intensive care patients performed by a mobile intensive care unit (MICU).
settingThis study was performed in the tertiary care process of interhospital transportation using the local MICU system in the South East of the Netherlands.
participantsBetween March 2009 and December 2011, all transports of adult patients being performed by the local MICU centre have been documented; data on 42 variables, including a 24 h follow-up Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score of 368 consecutive interhospital transports of intensive care patients, were recorded. In 24 cases, the follow-up SOFA score was missing, so 344 data sets were included.
interventionsNo interventions have been done. PRIMARY/SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Primary outcome measures were the mean SOFA score before and 24 h after transport, and the 24 h post-transport mortality. Moreover, the differences between the groups of 24 h post-transport survivors and non-survivors have been analysed.
resultsThe mean SOFA score before transport was 8.8 for the whole population and 8.6 for those patients who were alive 24 h after transport, with a mean SOFA score of 8.4 after transport. The adverse events rate was 6.4%. Fourteen patients (4.1%) died within 24 h after transport. Patients in this group had a higher SOFA score, lower pH, higher age and more additional medical support devices than those patients in the survivor group.
conclusionsThe non-significant decrease in the post-transport SOFA score and the lack of an association between transport and 24 h post-transport mortality indicates that in the study setting, interhospital transportation of intensive care patients performed by a MICU system was not associated with a clinically relevant deterioration of the patient.
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