Definition of a Critical Care Laptop Admission

The definition of an "ICU patient" for the Regional ICU Database is:

• admitted under an ICU/CCU/CICU service attending physician to an ICU/CCU/CICU bed. If patient doesn't meet this definition then we don't collect data and enter into the ICU database.

For ICU patients collection starts at unit Arrive DtTm

Problem with definition at STB

• This definition may work for some ICU's (closed units), however, at STB in ICMS we have Cardiologists who also admit to this ICU and who attend the patient. (This may change when the new CCU opens which is planned for late June 2016 because they will be accepting intubated patients and IABP patients in the new CCU, so they may not need to put their patients into ICMS very often then). --LKolesar 12:40, 2016 May 19 (CDT)
  • Trish, Julie, do we need to adjust the definition? Ttenbergen 10:43, 2016 June 8 (CDT)
    • Yes, I did some changes in the definition. JMojica 10:53, 2016 June 8 (CDT)

Beds borrowed in ICU are not ICU admissions

See bed borrow

Related Articles

• Definition of a Medicine Service admission.
• also see: Identifying ICU admissions

Legacy

We used to exclude short stay patients (e.g. resuscitation failed and patient died after a few minutes in ICU). As of October 24, 2011 all patients that arrive in the ICU in the process of resuscitation should be included in the database, even if they are there for a short lenght of time and subsequently pass away. This has been recommended by the ICU Database Task Group and approved by Dr. Dan Roberts from the Steering Committee.