Critical care is important and the State is committed to providing it nearer to the people.
A workshop on eICU was held under chairmanship of Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Dr Pramod Kumar Meherda here redcently.
An Electronic Intensive Care Unit (eICU) is a form of telemedicine that uses state of the art technology to provide an additional layer of critical care service. An eICU may also be referred to as a tele-ICU.
Emphasis was laid to adhere to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) developed for functioning of the ICUs in the State.
Considering the issue of bandwidth at many District Headquarters Hospital (DHH), representative from BSNL were advised to provide optical fiber with adequate and continuous bandwidth to all the DHH level e-ICUs within 15 days time.
Also it was decided to have a training of all staff members of respective ICUs on the usage of e-ICU networking system within one month time for optimum utilization of it, since this can provide direct handhold support of the DHH ICUs through the Central ICU of SCB MCH, Cuttack.
This will also be helpful for timely referral and updating of skill and knowledge of the DHH ICU staffers.