Reducing the risks of intrahospital transport among critically III patients

摘要

Six weeks into internship, my classmate and I were having breakfast together after rounds. We heard a code blue called overhead; it was in the CT scanner. "Death begins in Radiology," she advised me with as sage a look as an intern can visage. "It was been proven that clinical deterioration often begins there or en route." She herself had needed to call anesthesia to emergently reintubate a patient in the scanner just days earlier-we trained before duty-hour limits and dedicated transport nurses.