What Can An Intermediate Care Unit Do For You?

Harding, Andrew D.

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“…Pasientene har også behov for mer avanserte intervensjoner enn dem som normalt kan håndteres ved en sengepost, som for eksempel non-invasiv respirasjonsstøtte, arteriell blodtrykksmåling og bruk av ekstern hjertepumpe (LVAD -Left Ventricular Assist Device) (15).…”

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Sykepleiere får overvåkningskompetanse

Fålun¹,

Lyssand²,

Mortensen³

2017

Sykepleien

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Section: Deltakernes Erfaringerunclassified

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Fålun¹,

Lyssand²,

Mortensen³

2017

Sykepleien

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“…The initial competencies addressed weaning and long-term mechanical ventilation, 24 but this competency is no longer part of the revised 2009 competencies. 7 Although some units may take patients who require long-term mechanical ventilation, 4,5 …”

Section: Core Competencies Of Progressive Care Nursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These types of patients usually include those requiring extensive wound management, extensive pulmonary interventions, 6 or other interventions that cannot be provided in the medical-surgical unit. Some of these interventions include weaning a patient off of mechanical ventilation 5 and managing a patient with an arterial catheter, a temporary pacemaker, or a ventricular assist device. Interventions that cannot be provided in the medicalsurgical unit will vary depending on the health care organization and the types of medical-surgical units available within the organization.…”

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“…10 These guidelines have become the standard for the development of many hospitals' PCU admission criteria. 5 The guidelines provide a list of examples of patients by body system (eg, cardiac, pulmonary) that would and would not be appropriate for admission to the PCU. Discharge criteria are also provided.…”

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“…1 During this time, the number of progressive care units (PCUs) throughout the United States has increased significantly 2 as many hospitals have adopted this model as a cost-effective way of providing quality health care to a distinct population of patients. [3][4][5][6] Initially developed in the 1970s to care for patients with myocardial infarction who required cardiac monitoring, 7 level of surveillance. 10 Generally, PCU patients do not require the more sophisticated technologies found in an ICU.…”

Section: Progressive Carementioning

confidence: 99%

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Progressive Care Units: Different but the Same

Stacy

2011

Critical Care Nurse

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Progressive care units are increasingly common in hospitals in the United States. These units are often used to bridge the gap between intensive care units and medical-surgical units, with the goal of providing cost-effective, high-quality, safe care. Although progressive care units today may seem to provide care for a wide variety of patients, these patients do share certain typical features: they require a high intensity of nursing care and/or a high level of surveillance. Nurses working in progressive care units all must have certain basic competencies. Those core competencies have been identified and should form the basis for education and training of progressive care nurses.

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Sustaining critical care: using evidence-based simulation to evaluate ICU management policies

Mahmoudian-Dehkordi

Sadat

2016

Health Care Manag Sci

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Intensive Care Units (ICU) are costly yet critical hospital departments that should be available to care for patients needing highly specialized critical care. Shortage of ICU beds in many regions of the world and the constant fire-fighting to make these beds available through various ICU management policies motivated this study. The paper discusses the application of a generic system dynamics model of emergency patient flow in a typical hospital, populated with empirical evidence found in the medical and hospital administration literature, to explore the dynamics of intended and unintended consequences of such ICU management policies under a natural disaster crisis scenario. ICU management policies that can be implemented by a single hospital on short notice, namely premature transfer from ICU, boarding in ward, and general ward admission control, along with their possible combinations, are modeled and their impact on managerial and health outcome measures are investigated. The main insight out of the study is that the general ward admission control policy outperforms the rest of ICU management policies under such crisis scenarios with regards to reducing total mortality, which is counter intuitive for hospital administrators as this policy is not very effective at alleviating the symptoms of the problem, namely high ED and ICU occupancy rates that are closely monitored by hospital management particularly in times of crisis. A multivariate sensitivity analysis on parameters with diverse range of values in the literature found the superiority of the general ward admission control to hold true in every scenario.

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What Can An Intermediate Care Unit Do For You?

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

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Progressive Care Units: Different but the Same

Sustaining critical care: using evidence-based simulation to evaluate ICU management policies

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