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Icu admission
1.
2. Patients should be admitted to intensive care before their condition
reaches a point from which recovery is impossible.
3. Criteria for calling intensive care to adult patients
• Threatened airway
• All respiratory arrests
• Respiratory rate ⩾40 or ⩽8 breaths/min
• Oxygen saturation <90% on ⩾50% oxygen
• All cardiac arrests
• Pulse rate <40 or >140 beats/min
• Systolic blood pressure <90 mm Hg
• Sudden fall in level of consciousness (fall in Glasgow coma score >2 points)
• Repeated or prolonged seizures
• Rising arterial carbon dioxide tension with respiratory acidosis
• Any patient giving cause for concern
(Adapted from McQuillan et al BMJ 1998;316:1853-8.)
4. Surgical
1. High risk patients in the
peri-operative period
2. Post-operative patients requiring
continuous haemodynamic
monitoring/ ventilatory support:
usually following:
• vascular surgery
• thoracic surgery
• airway surgery
• craniofacial surgery
• major orthopaedic and spine
surgery
• general surgery with major blood
loss/ fluid shift
• neurosurgical procedures
Guidelines for ICU Admission, Discharge and Triage. Society of Critical Care Medicine—March 27, 1999.
5. DISCHARGE
• A. When a patient’s physiologic status has stabilized and the need for
ICU monitoring and care is no longer necessary.
• B. When a patient’s physiologic status has deteriorated and active
interventions are no longer planned.
Guidelines for ICU Admission, Discharge and Triage. Society of Critical Care Medicine—March 27, 1999.