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Old 12th May 2011, 20:43
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homonculus
 
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This charity is clearly best left alone, but please dont allow it to denegrate the role of a neonatal transfer system.

In the UK there is probably more need to paediatric rotary interhospital transfers than adult. The inability to transfer is also more likely to kill than in the case of adults. And paed secondary rotary transfers have been proven to save lives which, I regret to say, HEMS has not.

Secondary transfers require different medical crew and equipment from primary, and using HEMS is always a compromise. so by all means support HEMS but dont rubbish secondaty, and in particular neonatal secondary.
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