Urgent support and escalation
Local critical-care, radiology and out-of-hours support information.
Unstable or deteriorating patient
Continue resuscitation, involve the responsible ED senior clinician, follow the current DBTH sepsis, major-haemorrhage or trauma pathway, and contact Urology. Involve critical care early when organ support or admission may be required.
Interventional radiology
Contact Urology and radiology early for an infected obstructed system. Do not delay decompression.
Requests from other hospitals
Emergency nephrostomy requests require consultant-to-consultant discussion.
Out-of-hours support
Use DBTH switchboard for on-call Haematology and Microbiology.