STB MICU

Location
Location	STB MICU
First Admission	May 24 1999
Program	Critical Care
Hospital	STB
Nr of Beds	11
Collection Unit Phone:
Collection Unit Fax :
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see STB_MICU Collection Guide for collection instructions specific to this ward

Location profile

This unit is a mixed unit and admits cardiac,surgical and medical type patients. VV Ecmo patients can be admitted to this unit but if the pt has AV Ecmo, they are transferred to CICU under the Cardiac Surgery team. This is a tertiary care ICU.

There is a log book at the main desk which the admissions and discharges are entered each day. These can also be seen in EPR. There is a purple binder at the main desk where completed tiss and green sheets are left for the data collector. The ongoing green sheets are kept in a binder on the rounds cart. Each day the data collector must go to each bedside to obtain data from the nurses' flow sheets which are still in paper format. At this time the tiss sheets which are kept on the bedside chart can be checked to ensure accuracy. Apache vital signs must be obtained from the paper flow sheets. The main paper charts are kept at the individual bedsides as well. It is helpful to view the operative records, angiogram records, endoscopy reports, code blue records, notes sent from other hospitals, etc. at this time.
Once the bedside chart information has been collected and entered on the laptop, there may be ward follow ups. Patients from MICU can be transferred to almost any ward in the hospital (surgical wards are 4AS and 4ASstepdown; 7AS and 7AW, 2B); (acute medical wards are E5, E6); (chronic medicine wards are B5, A6S, E4); (Gyne is A6W); (Cardiology ward is A5S); (Palliative ward is A8W); (Psychiatry is McEwen).

STB Cardiology service patients are collected differently than other patients, see STB Cardiac Care patients for details.

This unit was merged with the old STB SICU 15 January 2007