Transport to the Royal Melbourne Hospital
PIPER will coordinate the code stroke response, and will organise transport to RMH:
- If a PIPER ambulance is not available, an Ambulance Victoria ambulance may be requested. These have one fewer seat – the anaesthesia technician may be required to travel by taxi to RMH ED; PIPER bears responsibility for organising this additional transport
For VAD patients, a perfusionist or VAD nurse will travel with the team in the ambulance
- This may require that the anaesthetist + anaesthesia assistant travel separately by taxi to RMH ED, or that the anaesthetist takes the place of the PIPER doctor
Warning
If the anaesthesia assistant travels separately, the PIPER nurse must remain with the anaesthetist until the assistant rejoins the team
Note
For Epic to work correctly at RMH, the patient must be placed on ‘day leave’ on iPM by administrative staff at RCH.
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