STB Critical Care Collection Guide

This article contains information specific to STB Critical Care Units, see the ICU Curriculum for general information.

Please make sure you document information at the most general level that is applicable, i.e. don't code something that affects all collection at StB in the program or unit level articles.

See also:

• STB CCU Collection Guide
• STB CICU Collection Guide
• STB MICU Collection Guide

Overflows

As of October 1, 2010 CCU collectors do not collect data on CCU pts that are located in MICU or ICCS. Instead these pts are put as MICU or CICU location with cardiac type. If the pt care is transferred to the MICU attending, the profile will be restarted and it will be a medical type, instead of cardiac type. This is done by the MICU or CICU data collectors. Legacy prior to October 1, 2010: MSICU and ICCS can also have CCU patients as CCU overflows. They will often be located in one of these areas if they require intubation and /or IABP. However, they are still attended by the CCU doctors and the CCU data collector must enter them as a CCU patient. They usually remain under CCU unless further multi system issues exist that the CCU attending wishes to transfer the care to the ICU. In this case the patient is discharged from CCU and admitted to the ICU and the ICU data collector will then start a profile and continue to follow this patient. (insure that the respective TISS sheet follows the patient as they are moved between units if they continue to be a CCU pt.) Make sure the overflow is marked in the variable 5 slot. Template:Discussion

• pulled this from the CCU article; is there anything related for the other units that needs to go here? Ttenbergen 16:18, 2012 October 31 (EDT)

Labs

• Lab Collection Process

Remember to count cardiac MRI, echos and angiograms in the labs.

• With the EPR we do not count any labs or pharms until the patient is discharged from the unit, it is the last thing we do.--LKolesar