Five years, 5,000 patients.
-The patient number 5,000 turned out to be a postoperative patient of vascular surgery, with a favourable evolution that allowed their high medical after 24 hours from arrival at the service
-acute coronary pathology is a common cause of admission to intensive care medicine service, 32% of the aided patients were suffering from this disease
Torrevieja, 2011-December the service of intensive care medicine in the Hospital in Torrevieja, managed by Bank health and Asisa and integrated in the public network of the Generalitat Valenciana, celebrates five years with 5,000 patients since the start of its assistance activities in October 2006.
The patient number 5,000 turned out to be a postoperative patient of vascular surgery, with a favourable evolution that allowed their high medical after 24 hours from arrival at the service.
UCI optional consultation clinic the patient in real-time history
acute coronary pathology is a common cause of admission to intensive care medicine service, 32% of the aided patients were suffering from this disease. The severity of the condition requires, on numerous occasions, to the admission of patients in special units of critical care where appropriate to treat the most acute phase of their health problems.
Since its launch in March, medical intensive care service has treated patients with critical pathology of a different nature. 35% Of patients assisted by this service were patients with medical pathology (respiratory infections, heart failure, etc.)
ICU nurse draws a computerized wardrobe medication
during the first five years, a total of 1,125 patients require postoperative care and control comprehensive, equivalent to 22% of the total number of patients served. This kind of sick, fruit of the complication of the clinical picture that suffer, require attention much more intensive than the rest of patients assisted in the ICU of the torrevejense Centre.
The patients severe polytrauma that do not require neurosurgical intervention represent 4% of the assistance, while the remaining 7% refers to users who require cardiac stimulation.
The unit of intensive care from the Hospital in Torrevieja lies entirely computerized, through monitoring of latest generation systems integrated into the clinical history of patients. With a total of 14 beds, intensive care medicine service is composed of ten professional optional specialists, 20 nurses, ten assistants and five support professionals.
UCI professionals attend a critically ill patient
the UCI attends to an average of three new patients per day and, since the beginning of his career, he has been increasing exponentially their level of activity, increasing the rate of annual patients assisted in its facilities. In addition, transplant coordination carried out by the service performs an exceptional work in the realization of those diagnosed patients of Encephalic death organ donation.
Welfare activity of the service is complemented with important research and information, work reinforced by the involvement in prospective and observational, national and international studies.
Since its inception, the UCI professionals have been developing comprehensive and stringent protocols that guarantee the quality of care in the prevention of infection associated with mechanical ventilation, example of this is his involvement in project bacteremia and pneumonia Zero which is covered by the quality agency of the Ministry of health and Social policy and by the medical societies Intensive, critical and coronary units (SEMICYUC) and intensive nursing (SEEIUC).
a nurse control constants vital patients critical
the participation of the service in the study ENVIN, aimed at the prevention of infections related to the use of devices developed during the stay of patients in ICU, as well as his involvement in the project ARIAM, aimed at evaluating the delay in the treatment of the acute coronary syndromes, they are good sample of the bet and commitment to the professionals of this service.
Dr. Eugenio Herrero Gutierrez, Chief of the service of intensive care medicine in the Hospital in Torrevieja, said to be fully satisfied with the healthcare activity which has developed our service over the past five years. With the passage of time we have been gradually increasing our level of assistance, demanding the highest quality controls and ensuring we collaborate in few research and projects aimed at improving the safety of our patients ”.
