5 Ways to Monitor and Manage Patients With Tele-ICU Care

The pandemic has literally shown us how lack of facilities and qualified medical professionals at the most crucial of moments can deeply impact your health. This was more evident in the rural sectors where time was absolutely crucial. Even Intensive Care units at hospitals were found short of experienced doctors leading to unforeseen outcomes.

1. Facility for Video Conferencing: It facilitates communication between off-site clinicians and bedside staff to provide Real Time Patient Care.

2. Seamless Transfer of Patient Health Status through EMR (Electronic Medical Records): Provides critical update to offsite team through teleconsultation on patient’s instability or any abnormality in lab results for remediation and timely intervention. The EMR also includes patient vital reading and ventilator reading.

3. Multiple Expert Consultation: The quantum of emergency might need not one expert opinion but multiple opinions from experts positioned at different locations. Tele-ICU engages the number of experts at the same time to have a collective discussion and seek opinions.

4. Chat Directly if Required With Patient/patient Family: To seek the necessary consents for major treatment plans, experts can chat directly with the patient/patient family and enlighten them of their health status, straight in the ICU itself.

5. Patient Health Alerts for Bed Side Staffs: ICU support medical team can now receive health status as it prevails and doctors’ recommendations with respect to a patient’s treatment progress.

Conclusion: What **Tele-ICU Care** brings to the healthcare system is nothing short of revolution. Saving on cost and time, this technology speeds up decision making and in turn commencing treatment. For more detail on this widely popular mode of treatment, feel free to connect with Apollo Telehealth, pioneers in Tele ICU Care.