Initiative will increase from 225 to 537 virtual ICU beds across the country; 80% will be dedicated to public health units<\/i>\n<\/p>\n
Sao Paulo, September 6, 2022 \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Einstein will expand its supply of virtual Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds throughout the country by 2023. The organization will increase its current capacity from 225 beds to 537 beds next year. Of these, more than 80% (450 in total) will be dedicated to public health units. Iniciativa passar\u00e1 de 225 para 537 leitos virtuais de UTI em todo o pa\u00eds; 80% ser\u00e3o dedicados a unidades p\u00fablicas de sa\u00fade S\u00e3o Paulo, 06 de setembro de 2022 —\u00a0O […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-por-dentro-da-saude-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saudedigitalbrasil.com.br\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe TeleUTI initiative involves holding daily virtual meetings between Einstein teams and the unit served to discuss cases of patients admitted to ICUs in public and private hospitals in different regions of Brazil.
\nFor Dr. Adriano Jos\u00e9 Pereira, medical coordinator of TeleUTI at Einstein, intensive care units have made significant progress, but investment is still needed so that this type of structure is better distributed throughout the country and reaches more distant places, where access to specialized professionals is still limited.
\n\u201cIt is essential that we carry out research that confirms the real role of TeleUTI in practice, measuring its cost-effectiveness and its potential to change the strategy for caring for critically ill patients in the country,\u201d he comments.
\nThe TeleICU model was used even before the COVID-19 pandemic at Einstein. In 2015, the hospital was already providing its first virtual care services in the private network. The first project in the public network was started years later, in 2019, through the Institutional Development Support Program of the Unified Health System (PROADI-SUS), in partnership with the Ministry of Health.
\nVirtual bed care is based on a three-pronged knowledge base consisting of the following pillars: a specialist physician, responsible for contributing to the construction of care plans and the establishment of clinical goals for each patient, with the support of the local multidisciplinary team; practice management, with sharing of routines and care protocols, the intention of which is to reduce the variability of care, support decision-making and standardize processes, adding quality and safety at the bedside; and management of unit indicators, which aims to promote continuous improvement and evolution of care performance for all patients.
\n\u201cTeleUTI contributes to reducing inequalities in the allocation and distribution of resources, being a powerful lever for transforming the quality and safety of care for critically ill patients on a large scale in the country\u201d, comments Dr. Leonardo Rolim Ferraz, leader of the Einstein Network for Critical Patients and director of the M'Boi Mirim Municipal Hospital \u2013 Dr. Moys\u00e9s Deutsch, managed by the organization.
\nIn 2021, Einstein carried out 20,000 virtual visits, which resulted in the absorption of new medical procedures and protocols, improved care and continuous improvement of indicators, flows, processes and outcomes for critically ill patients admitted to public and private ICUs in Brazil.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"