Compass
Compass sections
Critical Care Management
HDU and ITU beds are always in short supply.
3 monthly facilities trend report (click to enlarge)
This is not an uncommon picture. At the moment, large numbers of patients are being cared for in ordinary wards when their outcome would be greatly improved with a critical care bed.
But the answer doesn't have to be in expensive capital investment in new facilities. Hospitals have used CRAB effectively to achieve the same results by understanding individual patients’ care needs and reconfiguring nursing resource more efficiently.
As for individual cases, different clinical teams will all be competing to have their patients placed above others. Tensions can run high. COMPASS is beginning to provide the common ground where beds can be allocated objectively according to clinical need, and using universally agreed clinical criteria.
