• Maximilian Feth, Carsten Zeiner, Guy Danziger, Christine Eimer, Sebastian Mang, Stefan Kühn, Nick Villalobos, Ralf M Muellenbach, Sabrina I Hörsch, and Philipp M Lepper.
• Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin und Schmerztherapie, Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Ulm, Ulm, Deutschland.
• Notfall Rettungsmed. 2023 Jan 1; 26 (3): 227237227-237.

AbstractCritically ill patients in need of specialized diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, but are being cared for in a hospital without such equipment, have to be transferred to appropriate centers without discontinuation of current critical care (interhospital critical care transfer). These transfers are resource intensive, challenging, and require high logistical effort, which must be managed by a specialized and highly trained team, predeployment planning and efficient crew-resource management strategies. If planned adequately, interhospital critical care transfers can be performed safely without frequent adverse events. Beside routine interhospital critical care transfers, there are special missions (e.g., for patients in quarantine or supported by extracorporeal organ support) that might require adaption of the team composition or standard equipment. This article describes interhospital critical care transport missions including their different phases and special circumstances.© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2023.

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