Administration

ICU Triage: What We Know and Everything We Don’t

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Bryan Boling, ACNP, DNP, FCCM (he/him/his)

  University of Kentucky Medical Center, Kentucky

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
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  Joseph Nates, MD, MBA, FCCM

  University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

Triage is the complex process of prioritizing the allocation of critical resources. It is reserved for situations associated with crisis-level shortages. In the ICU, triage occurs when the demand for critical care services exceeds its capacity. This happens not only in crisis situations (both short- and long-term), but in day-to-day operations around the globe. Prioritizing patients requires not only the management of resources (e.g., equipment, staffing, patient-flow efficiency) but also requires appropriate care for all patients. This session will cover the complexities of triaging patients, review SCCM's new guidelines on triage of adult patients in the ICU, and propose options on where to go from here.

Presentations:

• 10:35 AM - 10:50 AM Central Time

  The Challenges of a Complex Process
  

  Joseph L. Nates, MD, MBA, FCCM – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• 10:50 AM - 11:05 AM Central Time

  Adult ICU Triage Guideline
  

  Corinna Sicoutris, AGACNP-BC, MSN (she/her/hers) – Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania
• 11:05 AM - 11:20 AM Central Time

  Where Do We Go From Here?
  

  Namita Jayaprakash, MB, MD, BcH, BAO (she/her/hers) – Henry Ford Hospital