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ABSTRACT
Title of presentation:
Powering Critical Care - Anywhere, Any time
Author(s) name(s):
Nagarajan Ramakrishnan
Author(s) title(s) in
the organization or
Company:
Managing Director & CEO
Affiliation (Company
or organization)
INTELEICU
Postal address
Door # 29 (Plot # 1997), J Block, 13th Main Road, Annanagar, Chennai 600 040
E-mail address of
corresponding
author:
ram@inteleicu.com
Telephone of
corresponding
author:
+91 98408 55115
Preferred format:
Abstract: (200-750
words, in English)
___ Oral presentation or poster
_X__ Oral only
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Critical Care Medicine deals with the sickest and most vulnerable patients. A
significant proportion of the hospital cost is incurred in the ICU. In recent years, Critical
Care has emerged as a separate specialty and can no longer be regarded merely as
an extension of services from anaesthesia, medicine, surgery or any other speciality. It
has to have its own separate team in terms of doctors, nursing personnel and other
staff who are tuned to the requirement of the speciality.
Trained manpower in the field of Critical Care Medicine is limited which impacts the
quality of care provided to critically ill patients. Even in hospitals staffed by intensive
care specialists, it is impractical to expect their 24 X 7 availability and it is often noted
that care provided at night is suboptimal when there is no direct supervision of junior
staff.
Sharing Critical Care expertise using cutting edge remote monitoring solutions (TeleICU) is one of the ways to reach out to save more lives. Providing seamless care
between staff at bedside and in the remote monitoring center along with Tele-ICU
technology’s automated reminders and decision support tools, best practice standards
and high quality care are an immediate solution to reach out to critically ill patients and
improve their chances of survival.
InteleICU™ solution aims to facilitate systematic, standardized and high quality
assistance to critical care. The objective is to supplement the existing infrastructure of
hospitals providing critical care in their ICUs. The Remote ICU care provided by
InteleICU™ is an advanced technology driven remote monitoring assistance system to
Hospitals’ bed side medical teams.
InteleICU™ uses a remote protocol system for cost effective management of patient
care in the ICU. It provides quick access to multiple sources of information to
specialists in a remote facility and simplifies the process of incorporating specialist
knowledge in the care settings.
This is a solution which focuses on powering critical care across hospitals in various
geographic locations and providing secondary or tertiary level care. The holistic
solution provided by InteleICU implements the remote protocol system for
management of ICU patients, which:
1. provides remote secured access to patients information to highly specialised
Intensivists on a timely basis;
2. provides systematic patient care advice from these Intensivists to bed side
medical team consistent with the available protocol;
3. implements International best practices that have been shown to improve
outcomes in critically ill patients;
4. monitors the patient management procedure and alerts the bed side medical
team in case of emergency;
5. provides standard decision advice based on the available protocols, especially
when the domain experts are not available at the bed side; and
6. analyses the monitored patient outcome data from the system statistically and
improve the alert generation and the existing guidelines.
By effective utilization of process management, guideline implementation and
outcome analysis, this intelligent (and human) remote decision support system would
facilitate ICU patient care, and provide reproducible management process and better
response time for patient status changes.
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