Transporting Patients

Wheel locking capability and need for safety straps. Side rail height sufficiency to prevent falls. 

Ability to accommodate patient positioning. Mattress on gurney is held in place. 

Ability to use patient transfer device. Maneuverability of transportation device. Transportation device deemed safe. 

The individual who is transporting the patient should introduce and identify herself or himself to lessen patient anxiety. Correctly identify the patient to prevent wrong-patient surgery. If the 

Elevate the side rails and apply safety strap. 

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Strength ACEMS supported three separate decon sites with medical monitoring. Due to overwhelming number of calls for assistance being received from Graniteville area, decision was made to enter with Level-B suits by Haz-Mat technician-level EMS personnel. Decision to not transport patients prior to decontamination was made by ACEMS Shift Supervisor. 

Accidents Transportation Patient census exceeding facility capacity... 

The Office of Emergency Preparedness provides other emergency response teams, such as Disaster Mortuary Teams. Additionally, it has established special National Medical Response Teams to provide treatment, decontamination, and special pharmacenticals to treat np to 1,000 patients. The Metropolitan Medical Strike Teams, also established nnder this office, ensnre the continned viabihty of a jurisdiction s existing health system given the added bnrden of a WMD incident. The Metropolitan Medical Response System consists of parts of existing local systems that can be called in to provide triage, treatment, and patient decontamination. This system transports patients who have been decontaminated at the scene to other facilities as appropriate for continned care. The System also assists medical facilities in developing procednres that ensnre patients are decontaminated before they enter a facility. ... 

It is found to be useful against both DNA and RNA viruses, for instance herpes virus, parainfluenza virus and respiratory syncytial viruses. It is also used as a prophylactic in renal transport patients and to minimise herpes simplex virus infections. 

Transport patients to the hospital or other appropriate facility. 

Confirm IV lines, indwelling catheters, monitoring lines, and drains. Protect the head and arms and make the patient as comfortable as possible. Transport patient s feet first and avoid quick movements. 

Very low plasma total carnitine levels (i.e. <15 pM) with a normal acyl-carnitine pattern could signal any of a number of acquired deficiencies (diet or drug related) or a deficiency of the plasma membrane transporter. Patients with certain metabolic disorders, especially GA-I and fatty acid oxidation disorders such as MCAD and VLCAD, who have never received carnitine supplement can become markedly carnitine deficient, and their acylcarnitine profiles may be interpreted as normal if pathognomonic metabolite levels do not exceed the normal cut-off. Carnitine deficiency or in-... 

Glutathione participates in free radical scavenging, defense against oxidative stress, redox reactions, formation of deoxyribonucleotides, xenobiotic metabolism and amino acid transport. Patients with genetic defects in four of the six y-glutamyl cycle enzymes have been reported and they are all inherited as autosomal recessive traits [1]. 

Transport patient feet first and avoid qnick movements... 

Does the organization conduct pre-transport patient assessments ... 

Guideline 3. Transporting Patients, Residents, and Equipment—It is often necessary to transport people in gurneys, wheelchairs, or beds or handle various types of carts, monitors, instrument sets, and other medical equipment ... 

We sometimes use the phrase "the bedside" to refer to the working interface. Actually, healthcare s working interface extends far beyond the bedside in both space and time. It is where any aspect of treatment occurs or wherever healthcare workers do their jobs. Thus it includes not only the hospital bedside, clinic exam room, treatment room, and laboratory but also medical transportation, patient homes, extended care facilities, phone conversations between patients and nurses, hospice, courier vans transporting laboratory specimens to laboratories, and community pharmacies. (The working interface even includes so-called curbside encounters, where the patient runs into his physician on the street and says, "Hey, Doc—I stopped taking that medicine you prescribed... 

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