The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, is to implement an eICU program designed to improve critical care delivery and save lives. The eICU program, patented by VISICU, combines early warning software and remote monitoring to connect off-site critical care physicians and nurses to ICU patients around the clock. The Christ Hospital’s eICU program, called Critical Connections, supplements existing ICU bedside care, allowing eICU and ICU teams to work together to provide an enhanced level of proactive care. The combination of early warning software and remote monitoring is proven to reduce unnecessary complications, shorten the hospital length of stay, and improve mortality rates. A total of 44 Christ Hospital ICU beds will be monitored around the clock by a critical care team from the hospital’s Critical Connections Center, located in The Christ Hospital Medical Office Building. This team includes an intensivist physician, specially trained in caring for critically ill patients, who monitors ICU patients from 7pm to 7am, when the patient’s attending physician is typically not present in the hospital. The team also includes experienced critical care nurses and health care assistants, who monitor ICU patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Critical Connections team uses powerful computers to monitor vital signs, medications, X-rays, and other information from bedside monitors. They continuously analyse patient conditions and alert medical staff to potential problems. “Critical Connections is just one more example of our commitment to provide our patients with the most advanced technology and an outstanding level of care,” said Susan Croushore, President and CEO, The Christ Hospital. “The eICU will never replace a caring touch or an encouraging smile, but its life-saving applications will reassure families that help is immediately available for their loved ones, no matter the time of day.” The Christ Hospital plans to expand its Critical Connections program to surrounding communities, to provide enhanced critical care intensivist coverage for ICU patients in other hospitals. Through the Critical Connections Program, such patients will have access to around the clock, advanced critical care expertise located in The Christ Hospital-based Critical Connections Center, without having to leave their local hospital.



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