Quality and Patient Safety

If Patients Cannot Come to the ICU, the ICU Will Come to the Patients: Tales of ICU Without Borders

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Ann Matta, ACNP, , MSN

  Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
  University of Maryland Medical Center
  Cockeysville, MD

The number of critically ill patients in emergency departments (EDs) is rising. The boarding time of critically ill patients in the ED is also longer, exacerbated by the nursing shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies have shown an increase in mortality of critically ill patients with delayed transfer to the ICU. Therefore, multiple institutions have created resuscitation units to provide early and high-quality ICU-level care to these patients. The topic of resuscitation will be discussed in a fast-paced review of multiple institutions featuring different types of resuscitation units such as ED-based, ICU-based, and consultation models.

Presentations:

• The Resource Intensivist Team at Medstar Washington Hospital System
• The Emergency Critical Care Unit at the University of Michigan
• The Emergency Critical Care Program at Stanford University
• The Critical Care Consult at the Henry Ford Medical Center
• ICU-Based Critical Care Resuscitation Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center