title: [Data management in an ICU: Experiences with ICM (Intensive Care Manager)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Experience with implementation and operation of a patient data management system on an intensive care unit.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patient data management system "Intensive Care Manager" (ICM, Dräger Medical). Anaesthesiologic ICU (surgical patients only) of an academic teaching hospital.
  
  
  RESULTS
  ICM was installed without problems and is used in routine patient treatment. The system is running reliably, availability was 99.87 % during the last 8 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Documentation has become better and more detailed with comparable time spent. More secondary diagnoses have been recorded since ICM was implemented. Special "views" related to organ systems allow to monitor organ dysfunction more easily and facilitate treatment decisions. Review of textual information needs to be further optimised. Writing of medical reports is ideally supported by ICM. Using ICM is advantageous for doctors, nurses and patients.
authors.affiliation: Abt. für Anästhesiologie und operative Intensivmedizin, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Altona.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prause
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004282:Documentation; D004363:Drug Utilization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic