Critical Care Network in North West London

Admission and discharge

• Early warning track and trigger
• Admission
• Discharge
• Critical care outreach
• Rehabilitation
• Repatriation from tertiary units
• Critical care admission to UK from abroad

Patient transfer

• Introduction
• Intra hospital (within hospital) transfers
• Inter hospital (between hospitals) transfers
• Major trauma pathway

Deteriorating Patient

• Deteriorating patients
• NEWS in the Network
• Sepsis
• Acute Kidney Injury

Respiratory

• Lung protective ventilation
• Severe respiratory failure and ECMO
• Minimising ventilator acquired pneumonia
• Ventilator care bundle
• Oral hygiene
• Subglottic aspiration
• Tracheostomy care bundle
• Long term weaning and rehabilitation

Cardiovascular

• Escalation for acute MI
• Aortic emergencies
• Intra-aortic balloon pumps
• Therapeutic hypothermia

Renal

• Acute Kidney Injury
• Referral
• Equipment

Neurological and spinal

• Introduction
• Referral
• Sub arachnoid haemorrhage
• Traumatic brain injury
• Isolated head injury
• Spinal injury

GI

• Referral
• Nasogastric insertion
• Bowel management

Liver

• Referral

Burns and Plastics

• Referral criteria for specialised burn service
• Docmentation for transfer to specialist service
• Burn care guidance
• Blister management

Maternity

Managing the critically ill child

• Summary
• PICU information
• Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS)
• Managing a child in an adult ICU

Privacy and dignity

• Single sex accommodation

Sedation and delirium

• Sedation hold
• Safe use of non-pharmacological interventions
• Sleep
• Delirium

Minimising infection

• Outbreak management
• Influenza
• HPA

Transplant and Donation

• Organ donation

Eye Care

• Eye care protocol and flowchart

Skin care

• Skin care clinical practice guideline

End of life care

• Palliative care referral