ICU Curriculum

This article contains some links to information related only to the Critical Care part of the Critical Care and Medicine Database. See Critical Care and Medicine Database Core Curriculum for information that applies to both.

This article does not contain all specific "detailed" elements that are collected for Critical Care. It is a broad overview of key categories.

• Critical Care Elements

• APACHE II ElementsNote: if pt is on immunosuppressive drugs (RA or SLE pts) mark this in chronic history scoring.
• Significant complicationsFebruary 4 (CST)
• Lab Collection Process/Blood Products in Labs
• Waiting for lab microbiology results:(5 days usual for blood cultures, 2 week for Cadham)
• Pharmacy collection
• TISS28
• Green sheet
• Category:All Projects ICU & Medicine
• Category:All Projects ICU only
• LTV
• Dxs for which special instructions apply
  • Organ Donor
  • VAP - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
  • Central Line Related Blood stream Infection (CLI)
  • P-Op Resp Failure
  • Septic Shock
  • Cardiogenic Shock
  • pneumothorax there are two categories for coding
  • Witnessed Cardiac Arrest, Unwitnessed Cardiac Arrest
  • admission from PACU to SICU: failure to wean, see P-Op Resp Failure for others