')fiQ SUBJECTS USING THE COAXIAL AND CIRCLE BREATHINGAnesthesia, Washington, DC ICU's are expensive and account for-1% of the GNP. Many patients (pts) without life threatening dysfunction and not utilizing unique PICU therapies who receive only monitoring could be cared for in other hospital areas a t a significant cost savings. Methods: All admissions to a 16 bed PICU for 13.5 months were evaluated. Daily assessemnts of types of care were accomplished with the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS). Each of the TISS components were categorized as PICU therapies (e.g. mech ventilation), montoring: personal intensive (e.g. hourly vital signs), monitoring: technology intensive (e.g. arterial catheter) and routine care. Daily assessments of severity of illness utilized the Physiologic Stability Index (PSI). Patients were divided into low (mortality risk
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