Benefits of eICU

Through the excellent partnership between the bedside ICU staff and the Advocate eICU team, patients in our critical care units have benefited from outstanding clinical outcomes.

Our aim is to tremendously enhance the quality of care we provide while also significantly reducing complications, length of a patient's stay and overall health care costs. This advanced system supplements regular visits by a patient's health care team members and is just another example of our commitment to outstanding patient care.

Here's how eICU at Advocate makes a difference in the lives of our patients:

• Advocate's eICU provides around-the-clock real-time audio and video monitoring of ICU patients from a central monitoring center. 
• Experienced board certified critical care specialists and ICU nurses provide continuous monitoring that enables physicians to tailor patient care in the intensive care unit.
• Health care assistants help the clinicians to assure each patient's demographic and monitoring data are accurately captured in the electronic monitoring systems.
• Every patient is APACHE scored, allowing the eICU to rely on risk-adjusted data so that quality improvement is continual.
• Enduring delivery of evidence-based protocols.

Studies have demonstrated that around-the-clock support from an eICU facility have been effective in:

• Reducing clinical complications
• Extending intensive care physician expertise to more patients across the network
• Improving patient outcomes and reducing length of stay
• Collecting useful data that may be analyzed to improve clinical processes