Standard operating procedures

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These clinical guidelines should only be used by members of the SORT team at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS).

They have been produced after careful consideration of available evidence in conjunction with clinical expertise and experience. The guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient.

Clinical advice is always available from SORT on a case by case basis. Please feel free to contact us if you have any queries.

Standard operating procedures

• SOP for the retrieval of critically ill and injured children by SORT
• SOP for driving and care of Trust vehicles for SORT
• SOP for role of the retrieval nurse
• SOP for health and safety risk assessment for new or expectant mothers on the retrieval team
• SOP for ambulance breakdown
• SOP for driver fatigue
• SOP for tasking TCAA
• SOP for retrieval cleaning
• SOP for SORT critical care technologist competency document
• SOP SORT retrieval nurse competency document
• SOP for SORT medical team competency document
• SOP for safe transfer of a guardian accompanying their child in the ambulance