ArticleAnaesthesia2022
Patient outcomes following transfer between intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Inter-hospital ICU-to-ICU transfer of critically ill COVID-19 patients is not associated with increased mortality: a systematic review with exploratory meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Pooled it
- Hospital Capacity Pooling in Pandemics: Simulation-Based Mortality Impacts and Diversification Mechanisms.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Transport Instability and Outcome Deterioration During Interhospital Intensive Care Transfers of Patients with COVID-19 in Germany.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- High-speed trains versus air transport vectors for mass transfers of critically ill patients: The TRANSCOV cohort study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Interhospital transfer among US veterans admitted to community and veterans affairs hospitals for acute myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of hospital medicine · 2025Article
- Care fragmentation and readmission mortality and length of stay before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: data from the National Readmissions Database, 2018-2020.BMC health services research · 2024Observational
- Period of hospitalization and mortality in transferred versus non-transferred COVID-19 patients: results from Germany.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Forecasting local hospital bed demand for COVID-19 using on-request simulations.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Critical care and pandemic preparedness and response.British journal of anaesthesia · 2023Review
- Corrigendum.Anaesthesia · 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
- Developments in adult critical care transfer in England: a positive legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic.Anaesthesia · 2022Article
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- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2022
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Abstract
Transferring critically ill patients between intensive care units (ICU) is often required in the UK, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a paucity of data examining clinical outcomes following transfer of patients with COVID-19 and whether this strategy affects their acute physiology or outcome. We investigated all transfers of critically ill patients with COVID-19 between three different hospital ICUs, between March 2020 and March 2021. We focused on inter-hospital ICU transfers (those patients transferred between ICUs from different hospitals) and compared this cohort with intra-hospital ICU transfers (patients moved between different ICUs within the same hospital). A total of 507 transfers were assessed, of which 137 met the inclusion criteria. Forty-five patients underwent inter-hospital transfers compared with 92 intra-hospital transfers. There was no significant change in median compliance 6 h pre-transfer, immediately post-transfer and 24 h post-transfer in patients who underwent either intra-hospital or inter-hospital transfers. For inter-hospital transfers, there was an initial drop in median PaO
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