TRANSFER OF PATIENTS IN CASUALTY DEPARTMENTS.

Abstract

Transfer of patients between health professionals of emergency is meant as a dynamic and purely informative process of the patient’s clinical condition that transfers the patient’s care responsibility to other health professional, giving continuity to care taken untill moment. Then a sequence of questions about this process appears: - To whom to report? - How and where to report? - What to report on? However it’s very significant the basic formative and informative lack of one of the critical and best moments to assess damages, the transference. According to the present focus given by Emergency Departments to this process, the aim must be training different health professionals up to work with a systematic method. There must be a coordination to expedite the informative transfer of a determined patient beyond the process itself (we realise as such the enough time that the transmitter team stays in the Emergency Department). Finally, there must be considered if we can question the patient’s prognosis in relation to the transfer quality, and the rise of risk of a more morbimortality directly proportional to it. These are questions that we should raise in the daily clinical practice.