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Blue calls--time for a change?

R Brown1, J Warwick

  • 1Accident and Emergency Department, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK. ruth.m.brown@kcl.ac.uk

Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ
|July 4, 2001
PubMed
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Prior alert telephone calls ("blue calls") to accident and emergency (A&E) departments often lack standardized information, potentially leading to misallocation of resources. Developing a protocol for these critical patient alerts is essential for effective hospital preparation.

Area of Science:

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Healthcare Management
  • Pre-hospital Care

Background:

  • Prior alert telephone calls ("blue calls") are standard practice for notifying accident and emergency (A&E) departments of incoming critically ill patients.
  • Current protocols lack standardized indications and message content, risking information distortion and inefficient resource allocation.
  • The quality of pre-hospital information conveyed via "blue calls" is often insufficient for optimal hospital preparation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the quality and content of "blue call" messages and assess clinical indications for their use.
  • To identify potential improvements in pre-hospital communication for critically ill patients.
  • To propose a standardized protocol for "blue calls" to enhance hospital preparedness.

Main Methods:

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  • Retrospective data collection on patients with "blue calls" to an A&E department over three months.
  • Identification and data collection on "clinically critical" patients transported without prior alert.
  • Review of pre-hospital information by A&E consultants and ambulance paramedics to assess alert justification and information needs.

Main Results:

  • Of 189 "blue calls", 73% resulted in admission (12% to ITU), and 18% died; 25% lacked pre-hospital observations, suggesting subjective alert criteria.
  • Patient condition details were included in only 11% of "blue calls", though 93% of alerts were deemed justified.
  • 75 "clinically critical" patients arrived without prior alert, including 27 with myocardial infarction symptoms, who might have benefited from notification.

Conclusions:

  • A significant proportion of "blue calls" lack essential patient condition details, impacting resource allocation.
  • A standardized protocol for "blue calls", incorporating vital signs and mechanism of injury/illness, is needed.
  • Implementing a structured communication system can improve hospital preparation for critically ill patients.