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 ACCU Collection Guide
• STB CICU Collection Guide
• STB MICU Collection Guide

Identifying STB ICU patients

See also Identifying ICU admissions

Cardiac Type patients

see STB Cardiac Care patients

VAP notification

In addition to Contacting Quality Officer and Manager for VAPs and CLIs, for VAP's also notify Rob Ariano who will notify all contacts for a SWOOP.

Labs

• Lab Collection Process

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

• With the STB Electronic Patient Record we do not count most labs or pharms until the patient is discharged from the unit, it is the last thing we do.--LKolesar

Code STEMI

Some heart attack patients go straight to the heart cath lab directly from EMS. See STEMI for collection instructions for such patients.

Cardiac Care patients

See STB Cardiac Care patients for information specific to the cardiac service care patients in the STB MICU/SICU unit.

Patient origins and types

Medical type patients are those under medical service and may have come from a medical ward or from ER or from outside of the hospital. The medical wards at STB include

• E5
• B5
• E6
• A6
• A5 is the cardiology ward (not part of our database)

The surgical type patients are those that are admitted directly from the OR, PARR or any surgical ward. The surgical wards in SBGH are:

• CR4 cardiac surgery ward
• 2B day surg
• 6AW gyne
• 4AS surg
• 7AS
• 7AW.

When a pt is admitted from CR5 (CICU) this pt is deemed a surgical type (not cardiac).

cost center

Our cost number for supply ordering is 6766

Outreach efforts

St Boniface critical care collectors attend the STB VAP Committee.