ICU Challenges
Monitoring / Tracking Clinical Parameters
- Managing data, tracking of clinical parameters from multiple devices and multiple alarms is a necessity in an ICU setting.
Managing paperwork - Manual Care plan creation & update
The nurses need to record the observation, therapy details, patient details and the patient's current health condition manually, which are time-consuming.
- Medical order from the doctor, communication between the caregivers across shifts, patients' progress notes etc.,
have to be manually recorded.
Workload Fatigue & Clinician burnout
- Since the Nurse : Patient ratio is 1:3, the nurses have to handle multiple patients and at the same time handle other tasks leading to workload fatigue and burnout.
Necessity for the doctors to spend additional time at the ICU
Many ICU do not have remote monitoring and remote video -feed capabilities which necessitate the doctors to spend additional time at the ICU.
Manual calculation of Ews (Early Warning Scores)
In order to modify the therapy for a particular patient, the EWS (Early Warning Scores) are manually calculated and
then the treatment plan is decided.
