STB CICU Collection Guide

This article contains collection information specific to the STB CICU (cardiac sciences) at St Boniface.

Please make sure you document information at the most general level that is applicable, i.e. don't code something that affects all collection at StB in the program or unit level articles.

See the following for more general information:

• STB Collection Guide
• STB Critical Care Collection Guide

Unit admission log book

The unit admission log book is kept at the main desk in front of where the ward clerk sits along with a binder to keep the completed TISS and green sheets as well.

Ward contacts

If you have questions ask the ward clerk or charge nurse.

Collector "base"

You can sit at the main desk behind the ward clerk to read charts or at the individual patient desks if the nurse is away. I usually take a bedside table and put my laptop on it to walk around the unit. This way I am not intruding on the nurse's space.

Location of patient chart components

Patient charts and clipboards are in front of the individual cubicles.

Project ABO TEE

See Project ABO TEE for details

Special Situations

• Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR)

• Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)

• Bentall Procedure

Vasoplegia (vasoplegic syndrome)

See List of Diagnoses we don't code

ECMO Patient Type

I put the VA ECMO patients down as surgical because they are admitted under a Surgeon in my unit. Lois

• VAP

When you have a VAP you have to email the following people with their medical record number and initials. unit manager-Crystal Gurney educator- Belinda Landry pharmacist- Rob Ariano Manager of Quality Improvement for Cardiac Sciences- Essi Shams

Other STB ICU collection guide info

• STB ACCU Collection Guide
• STB MICU Collection Guide