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Centralisatie van pediatrische intensive care en interklinisch pediatrisch ic-transport

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Tijdschrift voor kindergeneeskunde

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Centralization of pediatric intensive care (picu) in tertiary facility centers led to a reduction in mortality and morbidity of critically ill children. In the Netherlands all eight university medical centers have picu facilities and will be able to cover national wide intensive care for children as soon as the necessary expansion of picu beds is achieved. This centralization demands a safe and well-organized interhospital pediatric intensive care transport facility accompanied by specialist retrieval teams from the picus. The time it takes to achieve this situation is mainly depending on the expansion of personal of the picu and ambulance services. Regionalization of pediatric intensive care and interhospital transport in these centers may provide rapid intervention on a continuous base for the whole country. Referring specialists are responsible for the emergency care from admission until the arrival of the retrieval team. In this way an optimalization of care for critically ill children in the Netherlands can and will be achieved.

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Centralisatie van pediatrische intensive care in een beperkt aantal tertiaire centra reduceert de mortaliteit en morbiditeit van kritisch zieke kinderen. In Nederland beschikken alle acht academische centra over een pediatrische intensive care-afdeling en deze kunnen geheel Nederland verzorgen zodra de uitbreiding van de picu's is bereikt. De centralisatie van de pediatrische intensive care in tertiaire centra vereist een veilig en goed georganiseerd ic-transport met begeleiding door specialistische teams vanuit de pediatrische ic-afdelingen. Door regionalisatie vanuit de bestaande tertiaire centra kan een snelle inzet van deze teams op een continue basis gerealiseerd worden. Het tijdstip waarop deze situatie kan worden bereikt hangt af van personele uitbreiding van de picu's en de ambulancediensten. De verwijzend specialist blijft verantwoordelijk voor een adequate eerste opvang van de patiënt tot deze wordt overgenomen door het transportteam na aankomst in het verwijzend ziekenhuis. Op deze wijze is het mogelijk om in Nederland een optimale zorg te verlenen aan alle kritisch zieke kinderen.

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Dr. G.D. Vos, kinderarts-intensivist, Pediatrische Intensive Care, Capaciteitsgroep Kindergeneeskunde, Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht. J.A.K. Peper, anesthesioloog-intensivist, afdeling Intensive Care Kinderen, Emma Kinderziekenhuis AMC, Amsterdam.

Correspondentieadres: G.D. Vos, Capaciteitsgroep Kindergeneeskunde, Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, Postbus 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, tel: 043-3875245, fax: 043-3875246.

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Vos, G.D., Peper, J.A.K. Centralisatie van pediatrische intensive care en interklinisch pediatrisch ic-transport. KIND 72, 163–168 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03061508

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