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 complications ICU(We do not need this category any more because the number of diagnostic codes is unlimited now).--LKolesar 11:15, 2015 February 4 (CST)
• ICU Variable Codes
• Lab Collection Process
• Pharmacy Elements Collected
• TISS28
• Greensheets
• All Projects ICU & Medicine
  • comfort care; postal code; CLI
• All Projects ICU only
  • in temp studies options include:
  • blood type, RVfunction and LVfunction (for cardiac surgery only);
  • IABP; QA infection (for VAP or CLI); cooling for BRR or XBR
  • QA Septic (only used periodically for septic shock audit)
• 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
  • Respiratory Arrest
  • admission from PACU to SICU: common issue: Failure to Wean-Post OP,
    • also see P-Op Resp Failure for others