HSC Critical Care Collection Guide
See also:
- HSC General Collection Guide for information that applies to both HSC Medicine and HSC ICU Data collection.
- Medicine Curriculum for information that applies to Medicine Data Collection at all sites
- ICU Curriculum for information that applies to ICU Data Collection at all sites
- Category: Health Sciences Center Office for unit specific information, eg MICU
Workload balancing
See HSC ICU locations and serial number sharing 2015-05-01.
Currently we have 3 laptops and 3 data collectors. We will use the transfer tracker as much as possible to coordinate times.If other collectors need to email regarding patients from the MICU please send the emails to Fatima,Lori and Gail.This will change after our new hires are independant.
Pharmacy
If patients are transferred to the wards the medication records may be in the nurses Mar binder or in a thinned chart. The ward clerks will help locate these thinned charts.
25% Albumin is often given and is often not on the intake and output sheet but will be found on the medication record. Cross reference the blood administration record.
Transfer times MICU/CCU
Template:Discussion is this relevant only to MICU/CCU, or to Med collectors or STB CCU collectors as well? Want to make sure it's in the right place. Ttenbergen 15:02, 2015 May 20 (CDT)
To determine transfer times the first set of vital signs is the guide. Medicine collectors at HSC can find the transfer time by looking at the first set of vital signs in MICU. Unless there is a clearly documented time elsewhere in the chart the ward transfer time is usually 10 minutes prior to first set of vitals. It is a rare occurrence that those vital signs are not done. Collectors do need to be careful as there can be many pages of flowsheets for one day.The old addendum sheets are not supposed to be used but I will also occasionally see an addendum sheet.
STB CCU is used as a bed borrow sometimes post angio and then patients are sent to HSC CCU. The only way to tell if it was a bed borrow or not is to look for a nursing transfer record or check our data base's transfer tracker.
If patients overflow in to SICU they remain MICU data collectors patients.Surgical patients that come to MICU under the MICU attending care are also the MICU collector's patients.