STB Critical Care Collection Guide
This article contains information specific to STB Critical Care Units.
- See STB General Collection Guide for general STB information such as: links to EPR, Mail room, medical records. Information also in regards to obtaining hand sanitizer, wipes, printer paper for collection offices.
- See ICU Curriculum for general critical care info.
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.
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- STB ICU Data Collectors work from from home and are on site once a week to do records and ward followups.
On-site presence of collectors
- each ICU collector will be on site 3 times weekly to complete profiles in Health Records & ICUs as required
STB Medical Records requests
- Health Records requests 5 business days notice for pulling your list
- use the MR generator within Access to email your list to Reggie Albis & Cindy Gauthier; cc supervisor Tianna Mohammed who will redirect the list as required
Cardiac Type patients
VAP notification
If there is a Pneumonia, ventilator-associated (VAP) at a STB ICU, inform the STB VAP Committee. This can be done easily using the "generate email" button.
CLI notification
- when a patient has met criteria for Iatrogenic, infection, central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection (CVC-BSI, CLI), there is no longer any need to inform any unit staff
CCI/TISS
- cardiac MRI, echos and angiograms can be found in the CCI picklist
- With the STB Electronic Patient Record we collect/count CCI/TISS entries as we are able when we review the record. Confirmation of entries is done on final review of the chart. Pharmacy is completed after final review of the chart.
Code STEMI
Some heart attack patients go straight to the heart cath lab directly from EMS. See STEMI for collection instructions for such patients.
Cardiac Care patients
See STB Cardiac Care patients for information specific to the cardiac service care patients in the STB MICU/SICU unit.
cost center
Our cost number for supply ordering is 6766
Outreach efforts
St Boniface critical care collectors attend the STB VAP Committee when requested by the chair/co-chair. There is no longer any need to email the committee regarding a potential or diagnosed VAP