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Scottish Paediatric Intensive Care Retrieval Service
- West of Scotland Service
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Caring for critically ill children |
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Click for more information for
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Welcome: |
Welcome to
the West of Scotland web site for the Scottish Paediatric Intensive Care Retrieval Service.
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We are a mobile intensive
care service for children and babies. Our job is make sure critically ill or
injured children receive life saving intensive care wherever they are in
Scotland. |
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There are children's intensive care units in Glasgow and Edinburgh. We take
specialist doctors and nurses to hospitals anywhere in Scotland so that
seriously ill or injured children can receive the care they need. |
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Our doctors and nurses are specialists at providing intensive care to
children in ambulances, helicopters and airplanes. Children who need
intensive care can receive this continuously even when they need to be moved
from their local hospital to a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Glasgow or
Edinburgh. |
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This service is funded by the NHS but our supporters and sponsors allow us
to use the very best specialist vehicles and equipment and help us deliver
the best possible care to critically ill children.. |
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Yorkhill Children's Foundation |
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News: |
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1st February 2011 |
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Paediatric ambulance delivery getting closer |
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The PICU team has visited the new Paediatric Intensive Care Ambulance. After
a series of delays the vehicle is now in the final stages of construction.
The vehicle, which has been funded by a Yorkhill Children's Foundation
campaign, is a customised design featuring enhanced electronics, power
supplies and medical gas systems. It will have a customised seating layout
and a child orientated entertainment system.
The construction team estimates the vehicle will be available for
delivery in March.
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14th January 2011 |
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Paediatric team helps to transfer adult Flu patient on ECMO |
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The PICU team has used its mobile ECMO expertise to help get adult patients
to an ECMO centre.
ECMO is being used increasingly for adult patients, especially young
people with severe H1N1 influenza.
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is Scotland's official adult respiratory ECMO
centre.
The Paediatric team agreed to help transfer two adult patients on ECMO
who had become too unstable to be transferred from their referring intensive
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20th December 2010 |
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Paediatric team struggles through winter weather |
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The Paediatric Intensive Care team has managed to get to every referred
patient through the winter despite the terrible weather.
Our thanks to the Scottish Ambulance Service, and to Subaru Scotland for
our AWD ambulance car. |
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11th July 2010 |
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Paediatric Intensive Intensive Care team transfers patient on
ECMO |
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The PICU team has transferred two children on ECMO from Glasgow to
Newcastle. This is the first time in Scotland that patients already on ECMO
have been successfully transferred between hospitals.
ECMO is a system used to temporarily replace a persons heart or lungs. It
is used when all other intensive care supports have failed.
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19th June 2010 |
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Subaru boss meets children saved by response car |
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Managing Director of Subaru UK, Paul Cunnicliffe, formally presented the
Paediatric Retrieval Service with keys to their new Subaru Forrester
response car, now complete with emergency lights and sirens.
The Colin Mcrae Vision charity brokered the generous donation to
compliment a specialist children's ambulance already supported and now being
built.
Jim McRae, Colin's father, and the Subaru team met two children who
have already benefitted from the fast response enabled by the car:
Dani Mcallister (20 months) was transferred to Yorkhill by helicopter -
the retrieval team used the car to reach the helicopter base and was
airborne within minutes of receiving the call from Dani's local hospital.
Arlene Penderleith (14) slipped into a diabetic coma in Wishaw. No
ambulance was available to take to Paediatric Retrieval Team to her so the
response car was used to avoid any delay. She was transferred to Yorkhill by
ambulance and recovered quickly in the intensive care unit. |
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11th June 2010 |
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The Paediatric Retrieval Service teams up with helicopter
service to provide fast response to meningitis girl |
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When 20 month old Dani McAllister became gravely ill with meningitis she was
taken to her local hospital in Stranraer.
A combined team was formed with a paediatric retrieval specialist joining
the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) team. This allowed Dani to be
admitted to intensive care much more quickly than is normally possible.
In order to move quickly the paediatric consultant had to use the service
response car to get to the helicopter base.
Dani responded to treatment quickly and was able to leave the intensive
care unit after two days. |
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26th May 2010 |
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9 year old Kian goes home after winning infection battle |
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Brave 9 year old Kian Slaven left hospital today after winning his battle
with an overwhelming infection that had nearly killed him. Kian was
transferred by the Retrieval Service for life saving treatment in the
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Yorkhill when he became seriously ill at
his home on the Island of Bute. |
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28th April 2010 |
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Colin McRae Vision
delivers a new Subaru rapid response car! |
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The Paediatric Retrieval Service received a brand new Subaru Forrester
ambulance car today. The car is provided by
Nobles Subaru of
Penicuik in conjunction with Scottish Subaru and
Colin McRae Vision.
The car will allow medical teams to get to emergencies quickly, in
advance of the their specialist ambulance. |
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Our thanks to: |
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29th January 2010 |
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Colin McRae Vision
donates £35,000 towards a specialist ambulance! |
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Alison McRae presented Yorkhill Children's Foundation with a cheque for
£35,000. The money will be used to equip a specialist ambulance dedicated to
the care of critically ill children. The cheque was accepted for the
Foundation by 7 year old Tallulah McConnachie. Tallulah recovered after
being rushed to the intensive care unit when her throat was bitten by a dog. |
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Last Updated |
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14/02/2011 |
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