FERNO’s latest critical care trolley has been hailed as another life saving innovation to help critically ill heart patients across the south of England.
Clinicians and health specialists from Surrey welcomed the unveiling of Ferno’s latest Balloon Pump Transfer Trolley which has been 12 months in development and incorporates the crucial life saving systems necessary when transporting pre and post op heart patients. The CCT Balloon Pump will radically improve care for patients who, following a cardiac arrest, need to be transferred for specialist treatment. The first of its kind, Ferno worked closely with dozens of clinicians and health experts from several NHS Trusts and heart care units on the concept and design. The trolley offers a host of additional extras that have been engineered to help patients with coronary heart disease, angina or those who have had a heart attack. Many of these patients undergo an angioplasty procedure, where an intra aortic balloon pump is fitted. The pump helps maintain blood flow to the heart and helps stabilise the patient so they can be transferred to a specialist centre for cardiac surgery, or in some cases a heart transplant. In the past, following surgery, these patients would be transferred by ambulance on a standard patient trolley but this raised issues with the balloon pumps in situ in vehicles, loading and accommodating ventilators, as well as other essential monitoring systems.
