Guidelines For The Transport Of Critically ill Patients In Rabindranath Tagore International Institute Of Cardiac Science

Obtaining quality medical care can be a stressful process in one’s life. While the choice of a physician is a personal matter, provision of efficient and timely emergency medical services is a challenge for the hospitals running service in a city teeming with victims who require immediate medical attention and care.

Our Institute has made impressive arrangements for providing emergency medical services to the victims of accident and trauma cases. We have a designated medical officer and a paramedic available 24 hours a day to organize, support and necessarily undertake ferrying of critically ill patients as well as to reach out to any emergency calls.

Critically ill patients are attended by one experienced medical officer and a paramedical personnel who can understand, identify and interpret the seriousness of the situation, and start the treatment within the ambulance itself through appropriate administration of intensive care medicines, anaesthesia and other acute specialty. The decision to transfer a patient to our hospital is always based on a balance of the associated risks and benefits involved in such a transit, and such decisions are always made after elaborate discussion with the patient’s Consultant Physician from the referring as well as the receiving unit. The final decision regarding the transit lies with the ICU Consultant in our receiving unit.

Our ambulance is well-equipped with all the necessary state-of-the-art instruments and gadgets to facilitate transport of critically ill patients. Through appropriate machines, oxygen saturation and blood pressure measurement, the minimum standard of monitoring during transport is maintained.

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