We Are All Very Lucky We Have The Intensive Care Specialists We Do In This Country!
This release appeared a few days ago: National ICU dashboard critical during Vic second wave Tuesday, 30 March, 2021 The Critical Health Resources Information System (CHRIS) — a national tool for monitoring and sharing intensive care unit (ICU) capacity — has been described as a vital component of Victoria’s COVID-19 response, with potential to augment existing healthcare monitoring systems, according to its developers. Dr David Pilcher — an intensivist at the A lfred Hospital in Melbourne, and Chair of the Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation with the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) — and colleagues detailed the development and success of CHRIS in the Medical Journal of Australia. “In late March 2020, rising numbers of COVID-19-related admissions to ICUs were observed throughout Australia,” Dr Pilcher and colleagues wrote.
“ANZICS and the Australian Government Department of Health [DoH] recognised that ICU demand was unlikely to be uniform, that...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
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