What is a PPE Intensivist?
The PPE Intensivist Program provides intensive, coordinated care to ICU patients and their Referring Physicians. Members of a team of multi-disciplinary specialists meet daily to review the status of every ICU patient and their treatment plans for the day and immediate future. The team consists of an Intensivist physician, the patients’ nurses, nurse in charge of the ICU, registered dietitian, clinical pharmacologist, respiratory therapist, rehabilitation specialist, medical social worker, discharge planner, and, as needed, other specialists.
PPE Intensivists lead the Critical Care Team establishing collaborative relationships with all medical staff, including nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, dieticians and other professionals to provide patients with continuous and consistent care. Employing evidence-based guidelines, protocols and standardized order sets, our Intensivists coordinate the care of each patient and work closely with other specialists, as well as communicating their treatment plan with patients and their families along with our Hospitalists help manage patients throughout the hospital. and their families. PPE Intensivists along with our Hospitalists help manage patients throughout the hospital. These physicians assess patients in the Emergency Department, admit patients, arrange for specialty consultants and arrange post-hospital care. They then refer the patients back to their regular physician for outpatient care.
What are their qualifications?
PPE Intensivists are uniquely qualified by educational background and training, procedural skills, time commitment, experience, and have the institutional support to serve as the clinical team leader. These board-certified, critical care physicians take a total care approach to critically ill patients, orchestrating opinions from many different consultants, thus preventing fractionation of care and providing a coordinated approach to the patient and family.
Caring for patients while in the Hospital.
Your physician may request that a Hospitalist or an Intensivist take care of you while you are a patient in the Hospital. If you do not have a family physician on staff at the Hospital, a Hospitalist or Intensivist will be assigned to you.
PPE Intensivists are in communication with your primary care physician or family physician and will return you back to your physician after discharge. If you do not have a primary care physician, they will assist you in finding one.
How does an Intensivist benefit the patient?
By focusing their practice on the care of a hospitalized patient, an Intensivist can gain a great deal of experience in the unique aspects of a patient’s needs during the hospital stay. A PPE Intensivist can rapidly coordinate inpatient care throughout the day and react to emerging clinical data and changes in the patient’s medical status. Sometimes infections occur naturally from bacteria in a patient’s body, while other times infections or pneumonia might arise from bacteria at insertion points for IV lines or through ventilator systems. The intensive physician care and oversight of these ICU patients helps prevent such complications. National studies have shown that Intensivists improve clinical outcomes. This means patients receive the best possible care while they are in our care.
ICU Consulting
PPE will provide an objective evaluation of your current Intensive Care Unit and provide a recommendation that will include relative benefits, expense, revenues and issues associated with implementation of an Intensivist oriented program. This typically involves our clinical professionals spending several days conducting interviews with involved personnel, observing overall care in the ICU, understanding key clinical interfaces with the Emergency Department and other key hospital entities, supported by a review of charts, contracts and all ICU protocols and order sets.
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