Day-to-Day Running of ACCU

• The Day-to-Day Running of the ACCU
• Documentation
  • Patients’ Notes
  • Critical Care Transfer Summaries
  • Other Letters to GPs
  • What to do when a patient dies on ACCU
  • Coroner’s reports and inquests
• Bleeps
• Trainee Deployment / Responsibilities on ACCU
• Liaising with the Consultants
• Help from Anaesthesia
• Admissions
• Organ Donation
• Microbiology Ward Round
• Imaging/Investigations
  • CT/MRI
  • Ultrasound
  • Duty radiologist
  • Echocardiograms
  • EEG and other Electrophysiology
  • Thromboelastography and CK
  • NG Tube position
• On Call Rooms
• Security
• Thinking about money