Availability of critical care transfer guidelines
| Transfer guidelines | Number of departments where specialty/local guidelines exist | Number of departments with named guideline available in ED | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICU, intensive care unit; PICU, paediatric intensive care unit; AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm | ||||
| Anaesthetic department/ICU | 8 | 3 | ||
| Burns | 2 | 3 | ||
| Cardiothoracic | 0 | 1 | ||
| ED/other local guidelines | 13 | 16 | ||
| Head injury | 44 | 13 | ||
| Intensive Care Society | 2 | 2 | ||
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 1 | 0 | ||
| Paediatric/PICU | 11 | 3 | ||
| Pelvic fracture | 1 | 0 | ||
| Vascular; for example, AAA | 8 | 4 | ||
| Other | 2 | 2 | ||