Abstract
Introduction: Critically ill patients are in a dynamic and often precarious physiological state. Adverse events are frequently encountered during transfer of them. A prospective audit was conducted to assess the quality of inter and intra hospital transport of critically ill adults in a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka.Methodology: All adult critically ill patients transfer in and out to MICU and ETU Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura were studied for a period of three months. A questionnaire based on The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) guidelines utilized as it is the latest guideline available revised in 2019.Results: Out of 60 transfers analysed, serious adverse events such as cardiac and respiratory arrests were encountered.Conclusions: The overall quality of the transfer process was found to be suboptimal, necessitating proper training in defective areas.
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