ChaPTer 21 Critical care ApPlicatioN

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CRITICAL CARE NURSING is the nursing specialty that deals with human responses to life-threatening problems.

CRITICAL CARE     is the multidisciplinary health care specialty that cares for patients with acute, life threatening illness or injury.

A critically ill patient is physically unstable with real or potential life threatening health problems requiring continuous intensive assessment and intervention.

A critical care application would include the Information Technology Capabilities and Applications in Critical Care Settings and it has a lot of major capbilities this would include;

·         Process, store, and integrate physiologic and diagnostic information from various sources.

·         Present deviations, from preset ranges by an alarm or an alert.

·         Accept and store patient care documentation in a lifetime clinical repository.

·         Trend data in a graphical presentation.

·         Provide clinical decision support through alerts, alarms, and protocols.

·         Provide access to vital patient information from any location, both inside and outside of the critical care setting.

·         Comparatively evaluate patients for outcomes analysis.

·         Present clinical data based on concept-oriented views ( organize data by patient problem or by system).

A device connectivity infrastructure helps the most in the field of nursing because it makes the work of nurses easy and no hustle.

This would also include the physiologic monitoring this physiologic monitors were developed to oversee the vital signs of the astronauts. We have also the Hemodynamic monitoring this can be use to:

Measure hemodynamic parameters.

·         Closely examine cardiovascular function.

·         Evaluate cardiac pump output and volume status.

·         Recognize patterns ( arrhythmia analysis ) and extract           features.

·         Assess vascular system integrity .

·         Evaluate the patient’s physiologic response to stimuli.

·         Continuously assess respiratory gases and electrolytes.

·         Estimate cellular oxygenation.

·         Continuously evaluate glucose levels.

·         Store waveforms.

·         Automatically transmit selected data to a computerized patient database

Arrhythmia Monitors

Computerized monitoring and analysis of cardiac rhythm have proved reliable and effective in detecting potentially lethal heart rhythms.

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