Introduction
The emergency department provides the urgent services to the ill patients. In the emergency department, the doctors provide the enhanced care to the patients when they are in the critical situation. With the advancement in the technology, the health care professionals provide the advanced treatment to the patients in the emergency department (Petrillo-Albarano & Little, 2010). On the other hand, intensive care units are also called ICU. The patients who are in a critical condition are admitted to the ICU. At first, the patients are treated in the emergency department, but if they cannot recover from the emergency department they are admitted to the ICU. ICU is also called intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU). In the ICU, the hospitals used the advanced machinery for the treatment of the patients. This essay discusses the significance of both departments independently in which special emphasis is given to the stated attributes.
In the emergency department, the physicians provide the care to the injured and ill patients. The emergency department provides the advanced treatment to the patients. The patients having the emergency accidents are treated in the emergency department (Petrillo-Albarano & Little, 2010). On the other hand, ICU provides the most advanced and personal care to the patients. ICU is helpful in providing the fast treatment to the patients having the chronic diseases. The features of the ICU are totally different from the emergency department. For example, if the considition is unable to be balanced in the Emergency Department then the patient is shifted to a more advanced clicnical unit as Intensive Care Unit, where modernized life-saving measures are taken in order to revive the patient’s original state. The data of the emergency department are computerized and valuable. The physician takes the knowledge about the disease of the patients by using the latest technology. The physicians provide the decision after the analysis of the patients by using the advanced technology (Petrillo-Albarano & Little, 2010). Similarly, the same is applicable in the case of ICU, if there is an absence of appropriate resources, then it would not be possible for ICU to execute the patient’s safety and save lives.
Differences between ED and ICU and its impact on design and feature of clinical system
For the last few years, the emergency departments are computerized. EMR is the electronic medical record. In the emergency department, it is very common procedure to electronically record the medical details. The EMR provides the opportunity for the physicians that they can overview the medical details at any time. EMR is a valuable technology that helps to rapidly access the information of the ill patient. The facilities of EMR are now easily available in the mobile devices and it helps to easily evaluate the information at any place in the healthcare facility (Wang, Liu, & Zheng, 2013). In the intensive care units, the hospitals are using the advanced and latest technology for the treatment of the patients. The details about the admission and the exists of the patients are electronically recorded. This electronic data help the hospitals to easily access the data of the patients in the intensive care unit (Safavi et al., 2012).
The emergency data is stored in the data warehouse. The emergency department data available in the warehouse that helps to evaluate the visits of the patients and the exists of the patients in the emergency department.The main purpose for the collection of data is to evaluate the performance of the emergency department and the services provided by the underlying department (Genes, 2013). All the data of the intensive care units are available in the warehouse. The data warehouse of the intensive care unit includes all the data of the admission and exists of the patient. The purpose for the collection of data in the warehouse is to gather the information about the patient record that will help the intensive care unit in the audit.
In the emergency department, the hospitals provide the important level of care to the patients in 24 hours. When the patient needs the urgent treatment, it is necessary for that patient to visit the emergency department in order for the urgent care. The health care professionals are specially trained in the emergency department and the hospital provides the special trainings to the physicians in order for the emergency care. ICU provides the advanced care to the patients. All the nurses staff working in the intensive care unit are specially trained. Special education and training is provided to the nurses in order to provide the special and advanced treatment to the patients in the ICU. Advanced monitoring technology is available in the intensive care units that provide the every second information of the patient admit in the ICU to the physicians (Saddki, Mohamad Sani, & Tin-Oo, 2014).
NHIN stands for nationwide health information network. NHIN includes the standards, policies and services that helps to exchange the information on health over the internet. NHIN provides help in the emergency department in order to exchange the health information within the department (Kuperman, Blair, Franck, Devaraj, & Low, 2010). Nationwise health information network of the intensive care unit comprises of the different policies and procedures. NHIN is very helpful in the exchange of the ICU information in the health care. The NHIN illustrates the model that is used to provide the health information in order to secure the networks. The NHIN of the intensive care units is very smooth and fast, as compared to the NHIN of the emergency department.
The above reported differences highlight the strong points that must be noticed in the context of patient’s safety. Upon successful incorporation of the above factors, the feastures of the clinical setting can be improved and hence the patients would be able to receive advanced care and get to the normalization soon as compared to the traditional practices which did not focus on the differences between these two departments.
Conclusion
It is inferred from the discussion that Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit are responsible to address the chronic issues of the patients and have critical roles when it comes to saving the life of injured people. Nevertheless, they both are different in terms of their attributes, provisions, data significance, information, facts, and decision advocacy. None of the stated factors can be avoided as all of them perform significant roles in contributing the instant cure of patients.
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