Orientation

• General Information and Orientation
  • Organisation of the Rota
  • The ACCU in General
  • ACCU Wireless/DECT Phone Numbers
• The Day-to-Day Running of the ACCU
  • Documentation
    • Patients’ Notes
    • Critical Care Transfer Summaries
    • Other Letters to GPs
    • Coroner’s reports and inquests
  • Bleeps
  • Trainee Deployment / Responsibilities on ACCU
  • Liaising with the Consultants
  • Help from Anaesthesia
  • Admissions
  • What to do when a patient dies on ACCU
  • 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
  • Research
  • Thinking about money
• Common Clinical Encounters on the ACCU
  • Post-op Major Head and Neck Surgery
  • Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
  • Fasting for Theatre
  • Blood transfusion
• Clinical Situations Outside the ACCU
  • Code Red Trauma Call
  • Trauma Call
  • Routine Tracheostomy Changes
  • Airway Management Outside the ACCU
  • Assistance Outside the ACCU
  • Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT)
  • CT scanner
  • MRI Scanner
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Transfers to other ICUs (Clinical and Non-clinical)
  • Organ Support in Areas Outside the ACCU
• Infection Control
  • General practice
  • Aseptic Non-Touch Technique (ANTT)
  • Visiting Teams
  • Policies and Training
  • MRSA Policy
  • Blood Cultures
  • Antibiotics
  • HIV Testing on ACCU