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Susan Gaeta <Sgaeta@harthosp.org> wrote:
Hello All:
We are a Hospital based program with 2 BK 117's. We have 1 aircraft at our primary Hospital with the second being remote located at another Hospital within the state. We currently clean and mail equipment, i.e.:backboards, head blocks, CID's, straps, etc. back to our customers when we return to our primary base with the patient. Just curious what other programs do especially when the patient is brought to another Hospital.
1. Do you tag the equipment to identify it? The individual counties have their equipment labeled, but all unlabeled stuff goes to an "unmarked" equipment area and it's up for grabs by whomever claims it.2. Who is responsible for cleaning it? The Trauma Center puts all the non-disposable equipment in the shower room and the flight crew cleans it and puts it in a locked room, that has individual compartments labeled for the most commonly used county's equipment.
3. How is the equipment collected? When the county's transport a pt. to the Trauma Center, they can get a flight crew member to accompany them to the room where the equipment is kept and get their things back.
4. Is it delivered or mailed back? If someone happens to be going through an area and wants to deliver the county's equipment back to them, they do so, but generally, the individual counties come to the hospital and pick their own things up.
5. Is the receiving Hospital responsible for this, if so how? We use AMS charting and their is a section in it to document what was left, a description of the item and where it was left. That is all we can do, because it's oftentimes hours before a backboard or pediatric immobilizer makes it's way from the Trauma Center to CT, back to the TC and then out to the shower/cleaning area. There is virtually no way to keep track of it at all times.
6. Are the requesters responsible for getting their own equipment back? Yes. We have huge quantities of equipment and it would not be feasible for us to physically take all equipment back to the individual counties.
Thanks for any information
Susan
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