A multicenter population-based effectiveness study of teleintensive care unit-directed ventilator rounds demonstrating improved adherence to a protective lung strategy, decreased ventilator duration, and decreased intensive care unit mortality

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 691.e7-691.e14

  Kalb, Thomas ^a,b   Raikhelkar, Jayashree ^b   Meyer, Shelley ^b   Ntimba, Francis ^b   Thuli, Jason ^b   Gorman, Mary Jo ^b   Kopec, Isabelle ^b   Scurlock, Corey ^b  

^a DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^b Advanced ICU Care   (United States)

Author keywords

ICU mortality ratio; Low tidal volume strategy; Lung protective ventilation; Mechanical ventilation; TeleICU; Telemedicine; Ventilation duration ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY VENTILATOR ROUND; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENSIVIST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG PROTECTIVE VENTILATION; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELEINTENSIVE CARE UNIT; TELEMONITORING; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT DURATION; VENTILATOR DURATION RATIO; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTENSIVE CARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION;

APACHE; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEMEDICINE; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902261749     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2014.02.017     Document Type: Article

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