Implementation of the AWARE System to Support Virtual Critical Care in a MEDCEN and CSH

Abstract

In combat casualty care environments, decisions about triage, treatment, and evacuation are commonly made quickly, using limited and fragmented data. These decisions are difficult for novice clinicians to make due to lack of situational experience. Enabling critical care experts to be easily and immediately available to inexperienced clinicians using virtual critical care technologies could significantly improve their medical decision making and patient care by increasing process adherence, reducing errors, and improving outcomes. This study aims to determine if implementing a virtual critical care service that utilizes novel clinical decision support software (CDSS) to facilitate daily key quality indicators, process, and outcome metrics will improve patient safety, process adherence, and patient outcomes in a military intensive care unit and thus validate similar findings in civilian medical centers for the military. The study also aims to demonstrate that we can deploy similar technologies and virtual critical care support services to a combat support hospital during a simulated patient care exercise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1063820

Entities

People

  • Jeremy Pamplin

Organizations

  • Geneva Foundation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adhesion
  • Application Software
  • Casualties
  • Combat Casualty Care
  • Combat Support
  • Combat Support Hospitals
  • Evacuation
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mobile Devices
  • Patient Care
  • Physiological Monitoring
  • Vital Signs
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.