An evaluation of the impact of the implementation of the Tele-ICU: a retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The telemedicine intensive care unit (Tele-ICU) is defined as a system in which intensive care professionals remotely provide care to critically ill patients and support the on-site staff in the intensive care unit (ICU) using secured audio-video and electronic links. Although the Tele-ICU is expected to resolve the shortage of intensivists and reduce the regional disparities in intensive care resources, the efficacy has not yet been evaluated in Japan because of a lack of clinically available system.

Methods

This was a single-center, historical comparison study in which the impact of the Tele-ICU on ICU performance and changes in workload of the on-site staff were evaluated. The Tele-ICU system developed in the United States was used. Data for 893 adult ICU patie

SUBMITTER: Watanabe T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9989570 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature