All Scrubbed Up

Here are some pics from the journey... All the equipment is attached to the back wall above the patient - very nice and compact. A tiny drawer stocked with more drugs than I've seen in a while! All the equipment fits into drawers the size of a food trolley! And everything packed into a small compartment, snug between all the passengers.

On very short notice, I was asked to transport a quadraplegic patient to Miami for medical treatment. This might seem like a small task, but you've got to remember that a quadraplegic patient cannot sit in a normal chair unassisted - plus they have a higher rate of complication (basically anything going wrong). Hence the need for dedicated medical staff. And a some pretty funky medical technology... Introducing the Lufthansa PTC (Patient Transport Compartment). This is an amazing self-contained unit that fits into the middle of the plane to transport all ICU and critically ill patients. The patient is placed on the bed in the unit and the Lufthansa nurses and a doctor (me, in this case) stay with them in the unit. What made this PTC so amazing was how well equipped it was. There were ventilators, all kinds of monitors, IV injection pumps and the largest stock of ICU / anaesthetic meds and equipment that I've ever seen. It was definitely better than the ICU I worked in at Helen ...