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)
• Lab Collection Process
• Pharmacy collection
• TISS28
• Green sheet
• 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
  • Cardiac Arrest
  • admission from PACU to SICU: failure to wean, see P-Op Resp Failure for others