Definition of a Critical Care Laptop Admission

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

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

• • there are circumstances where other services "borrow" an ICU bed for procedures or monitoring, such as medicine for central line insertions, post angio monitoring because angio suit has no staff. Though these patients are looked after by ICU nurses, they are not admitting under an ICU service attending physician. LOS is generally 2-4hrs then they go back to there original department bed.

There are other examples and I would like collectors to add here. Collectors????

TOstryzniuk 18:10, 16 December 2008 (CST)