Definition of a Critical Care Program Admission: Difference between revisions
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The definition of an "ICU patient" for the Regional ICU Database is: | The definition of an "ICU patient" for the Regional ICU Database is: | ||
*EXCEPT for | *EXCEPT for the exceptions immediately below, a patient admitted under Critical Care service, regardless of their physical location, even if it is a [[Boarding Loc]] such as PACU or ER. If patient doesn't meet this definition then we don't collect data and enter into the ICU database. What this DOES mean is that this begins at the time when the ICU service takes over primary care of the patient (see [[Service tmp entry]]) | ||
* '''Exception HSC SICU:''' As SICU patients remain under the primary care of the surgical service, they do not fall under the rule directly above. Instead a SICU patient becomes an ICU laptop patient when: the earlier of (a) actual arrival in SICU or (b) the patient is not yet in SICU (e.g. is in PACU, or ED or boarding elsewhere) but the SICU service has accepted them to come to SICU when there's a bed in SICU. | * '''Exception HSC SICU:''' As SICU patients remain under the primary care of the surgical service, they do not fall under the rule directly above. Instead a SICU patient becomes an ICU laptop patient when: the earlier of (a) actual arrival in SICU or (b) the patient is not yet in SICU (e.g. is in PACU, or ED or boarding elsewhere) but the SICU service has accepted them to come to SICU when there's a bed in SICU. | ||
* '''Exception STB CICU:''' [[STB_CICU Admissions start at Arrive_DtTm]] | * '''Exception STB CICU:''' [[STB_CICU Admissions start at Arrive_DtTm]] | ||