Search Tag: Design

ICU Management

Evidence-based-design-drives-new-finnish-icu

2016 11 Jun

An intensive and intermediate care unit due to open in 2018 at Seinäjoki Central Hospital in Finland is the result of extensive evidence-based design research and virtual modelling. The facility with 24 single patient rooms will be the first ICU with single patient rooms in Finland. Design The EVICURES project included research carried out by...Read more

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Pennsylvania-icu-awarded-design-citation

2016 28 Mar

The Trauma Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center has been awarded the ICU Design Citation. The prestigious award — co-sponsored by the American Assocation of Critical-Care Nurses  with the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Committee on Architecture for Health of the American Institute of Architects recognises...Read more

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Esicm-2014-icu-design-open-wards-or-single-rooms

2014 29 Sep

Stealing a slogan from the recent Scottish independence referendum, Geoff Bellingan from the UK presented the pros and cons of single rooms or open wards in the ICU. Speaking at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) annual congress in Barcelona, he explained that he has become convinced that single rooms are the optimal provision....Read more

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Esicm-2014-designing-a-new-icu-for-patient-centred-care

2014 29 Sep

People often raise their eyes to the heavens for inspiration, but looking up was literally the solution for Jozef Kesecioglu from the Netherlands when designing a new ICU. The roof of the hospital was the ideal location for the new facility. Kesecogliou shared the lessons his hospital learned from building a new ICU at the European Society of Intensive...Read more

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Icu-design-does-it-matter

2011 21 Oct

Professor Flaatten explains how design can affect patient outcome, and reports data collected from a temporary ICU set-up during reconstruction of his ICU at Haukeland University. Does design matter? Intuitively most intensivists would probably answer yes to this question, given the experience we all have from various designs and functions...Read more