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Penn Medicine Reduces ICU Stays With a Clinical Alert App Built In-House
By some estimates, more than half of patients in the intensive-care unit are put on mechanical ventilators in the first 24 hours after their admission. While these machines can be life-saving, they also carry the risk of such complications as pneumonia and lung damage.
“And the longer patients stay on ventilators, the longer they stay in the ICU,” said Dr. Barry Fuchs, medical director of the medical ICU and the respiratory care department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine’s largest hospital.
To improve the process, a team from Penn Medicine’s ICU; information technology and data science departments; and its Center for Health Care Innovation, among other sections of the health system, created an app that manages streams of relevant patient data in real time. Fuchs served as the clinical lead for the project.
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