A Journey Through Transfer Medicine

Discover how to keep critically ill patients safe during transfer

Across the world, thousands of critically ill patients are transferred within hospitals and between locations, yet there is little formal training available.

This novel, interactive course is designed to address this gap. You will develop skills and knowledge around transferring critically ill patients across road, air and remote environments. Working with pilots, we have included non-technical skills training, drawing parallels with aviation, and relating these back to medicine. We will explore transfer medicine in specialised settings and hear experts on preparing for these.

Whatever your background, you will learn to plan and execute transfers of critically ill patients safely.

This course is designed for all healthcare professionals with an interest in the transfer of critically ill patients.

This includes nurses, paramedics, practitioners and doctors in anaesthesia, critical care, emergency medicine, prehospital medicine and various other disciplines, as well as students in these fields.

• Introduction To Transfer Medicine
• Welcome!
• Why Is Transfer Medicine Important?
• What Is Transfer Medicine?
• Identifying Risks
• Minimising Risks
• Human Factors: An Introduction
• End Of Week Summary
• A Practical Guide To Transfers
• Welcome!
• Transfer Physiology
• Pre-Transfer Preparation
• Packaging A Patient
• Before You Depart
• Critical Incidents During Transfer
• Arriving At The Receiving Hospital
• End Of Week Summary
• Equipment, Decision Making & Aeromedical Transfers
• Welcome!
• Equipment & Technology
• Documentation & Communication
• Transfer Decision-Making
• Aeromedical Transfer & Retrieval Medicine
• End Of Week Summary
• Specialist & Extreme Transfers
• Welcome!
• Neurological & Neurosurgical Transfers
• Cardio-Respiratory Failure
• Major Trauma & Burns Transfers
• Bariatric Transfers
• Obstetric Transfers
• Paediatric Transfers
• High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID)
• Remote & Extreme Transfer Medicine
• End Of Week Summary
• A Future Perspective