The extended UCI program increases the safety of the patient.
action early on the patient.
Spain, March of 2011- the service of intensive care medicine in the Hospital de Henares has launched a new strategy to help improve the security of patients potentially serious or likely to have major complications, not only in the ICU, but in any other area of hospitalization for hospital.
this strategy is to detect early in patients admitted outside the city intensive unit processes potentially serious and act early on them before the organic failures may occur. In this way Gets the maneuvers on these patients are more effective and prevents the occurrence of potentially serious complications.
This is a new way of working that it comes from experience international and supported by the Spanish society of medicine intensive, critical care and coronary unit (SEMICYUC) and that, along with the code sepsis, is changing the concept of intensive care that previously this service only worked with patients admitted in the service. However, it is demonstrated that a screening prevents many episodes that could be irreversible.
the computerization of the hospital, doctors in the service of the ICU have created a computer system that explores a few criteria or analytical parameters of gravity to that same computer system found abnormalities in patients through the application and notify the physician responsible.
in collaboration with the rest of other services, the ICU medical doctors can anticipate his treatment to prevent the occurrence of multiple organ failure. It is therefore due to the software and the relationship with other units, as he is achieved that this programme goes ahead resulting in greater security for the patient.
data of the ICU in 2009.
in 2009, intervened to 793 patients outside the ICU with this system, primarily in the area of emergencies, being the main pathologies above acting ischemic heart disease, sepsis and respiratory failure. Throughout the year there was no heart stop in comment er.
in the year 2010 has been piloting of the computer system and from January 2011 program ExtraUCI ” has been extended to all floors of the hospital
