What is the primary goal of Critical Care Transport (CCT)?

The primary goal of Critical Care Transport (CCT) is to safely transport critically ill patients while providing necessary medical interventions. This emphasizes several key aspects of CCT: ensuring the patients' safety during transport, maintaining their stability, and delivering any required medical treatments en route.

Critically ill patients often require continuous monitoring and immediate medical attention, which can include administering medications, managing ventilators, or conducting life-saving procedures during the transport process. This capability is crucial because the condition of patients can rapidly change, and having a high level of care during transport helps in preventing deterioration of their health status.

While ensuring comfort and pain relief during transport and focusing on rehabilitation are important aspects of patient care, they are secondary to the urgent need to stabilize and transport patients safely when they are critically ill. The primary focus of CCT is to manage and treat the medical needs of patients rather than post-transport rehabilitation or comfort during the process.