Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine

Shelley Riphagen, Sam Fosker

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781108931113
• eBook ISBN: 9781108950510
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Emergency Medicine & Critical Care

Critically ill paediatric transfers have expanded rapidly over the past ten years and, as such, the need for transfer teams to recognise, understand and treat the various illnesses that they encounter is greater than ever. This highly illustrated book covers a multitude of clinical presentations in a case-based format to allow an authentic feel to the transfer process. Written by clinicians with experience in thousands of transfers, it brings together many years of experience from a world-renowned hospital. Following the case from initial presentation, to resuscitation and referral and finally with the transfer itself; the book explores the clinical stabilisation, human factors decisions and logistical challenges that are encountered every day by these teams. Following the entire journey, this is an ideal resource for all professionals who may be involved in critical care transfer and retrieval medicine, particularly those working in paediatrics, emergency medicine, anaesthesiology, intensive care, or pre-hospital settings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title Page
• Copyright Information
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Models of Care
• Chapter 2 Logistics and Organisation
• Chapter 3 Air Retrieval
• Chapter 4 Improving Team Performance
• Chapter 5 I Like Children, but I Don't Fancy Intubating One . . .
• Chapter 6 Upper Airway Obstruction
• Chapter 7 Just Bronchiolitis?
• Chapter 8 Foreign Body Aspiration
• Chapter 9 A Child with Facial Swelling
• Chapter 10 Pneumonia and Empyema
• Chapter 11 The Child with a Cough and Concerning White Cell Count
• Chapter 12 Worsening Stridor, to Intubate . . . or Not to Intubate
• Chapter 13 Difficult Asthma
• Chapter 14 Transfer of Child with Pulmonary Hypertension
• Chapter 15 A Blue Baby
• Chapter 16 A Shocked Blue Baby Who Won't Improve
• Chapter 17 Under a Spell
• Chapter 18 A Decline in Function
• Chapter 19 Rash, Tachycardia and Irritability
• Chapter 20 Is the Baby's Heart Rate Supposed to Be Slower than Mine?
• Chapter 21 A Pale Lethargic Girl
• Chapter 22 Too Fast for Comfort
• Chapter 23 Chickenpox and Other Bugs
• Chapter 24 When Amoxicillin Just Doesn't Cover It
• Chapter 25 Tumour Lysis
• Chapter 26 Respiratory Insufficiency on Maximal Support: Is That It?
• Chapter 27 Cardiac Arrest
• Chapter 28 A Neurosurgical Emergency
• Chapter 29 A Fall from Height
• Chapter 30 Brain against the Clock
• Chapter 31 When Vomit Turns to Blood
• Chapter 32 Bilious Vomiting and Distended Abdomen?: Let's Find a Surgeon
• Chapter 33 What Can't Go Down, Must Come Up
• Chapter 34 Not All Burns Can Be Seen
• Chapter 35 Drowning and Organ Donation
• Chapter 36 The Cold Shocked Child
• Chapter 37 Encephalopathy
• Chapter 38 Adolescent Psychosis and Seizures: Infection, Ingestion or Encephalitis?
• Chapter 39 The Collapsed Neonate
• Chapter 40 A Floppy Breathless Child
• Chapter 41 Fever in the Time of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2)
• Chapter 42 A Palliative Care Transfer Home
• Chapter 43 A Story that Just Doesn't Add Up
• Chapter 44 Multidrug Overdose: A Practical Guide to Stabilisation and Transfer
• Chapter 45 Death Is a Possible Outcome
• Chapter 46 A Cold, Unconscious 12-Year-Old Girl
• Chapter 47 Another Collapsed Neonate
• Chapter 48 The Challenges of Chemotherapy
• Chapter 49 Diarrhoea and Vomiting
• Chapter 50 A Life-Threatening Sickle Cell Crisis
• Chapter 51 A Baby with Acute Liver Failure
• Chapter 52 Air Transport of a Critically Ill Baby
• Chapter 53 Crew Resource Management
• Chapter 54 Chest Drain Insertion
• Chapter 55 Paediatric Airway Clearance for Acute Management on Retrieval
• Chapter 56 Use of Ultrasound for Paediatric Retrieval
• Chapter 57 Vasoactive Drugs on Retrieval
• Index