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Preparations necessary to transfer seriously invalidated patients include:

• Contacting a suitable hospital: preferably assistance by local doctors is secured to arrange in order the transferee hospital, assured of respirator and IC wards, close contact must be established between doctor in charge and the transferee doctor, because the case will develop in a series and details medicare transfer will help to maintain control of the case in a new hospital.
• Choose a suitable ambulance and escort personnel: seriously invalidated patients may become aggravated anytime, a transfer course, albeit a necessary risk, will worth it by a perfect arrangement, discussion between transferring doctor and transferee doctor is required to concur as to if a doctor is needed to escort the transfer, or a senile nurse will do, as well as necessary first aid medicines and implements.
• Prepare in order complete and comprehensive case history records: including outcome of tests, X ray copies, CT, nuclear magnetic resonance films, intoxication cases must be transferred together with dubious toxicant drugs or agro drug bottles.
  The family folk that is the most familiar with the case must accompany the transfer.

A transfer is intended to give the patient yet better medicare services, still, want of suitable preparations may often expose the patient to even greater risks, fully fledged preppings will help to minimize risks so that the patient may expect better medicare services, and eventually to restore a healthy life.