CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION TO INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

PRIORITY

PRIORITY 1

Unstable patients requiring monitoring and intensive treatment

postoperative

shock

circulatory instability

invasive monitoring

vasoactive drugs

PRIORITY 2

severe disease

PRIORITY 3

invasive treatment for acute illness

limits on therapeutic efforts

metastatic malignancies

cardiac tamponade or obstruction of the airway

not appropriate for patient care in the UCI

patient who does not require ongoing or invasive monitoring and / or unstable patients

SYSTEMS

CARDIOVASCULAR

cardiogenic shock

arrhythmias

insufficiency
congestive heart

cardiac tamponade

RESPIRATORY

Severe respiratory insufficiency

pulmonary embolism

massive hemoptysis

respiratory failure

obstruction by air

NEUROLOGICAL

stroke with impaired consciousness

coma

intracranial hemorrhage

meningitis

infections snc

brain death

Gastrointestinal

gastrointestinal bleeding

liver failure

severe acute pancreatitis

ENDOCRINE

diabetic cetoacidosis

severe hypercalcemia

hypernatremia

Juliette Herrera Cifuentes Paola Godoy

invasive monitoring requiring immediate intervention

can be

the clinical status of patients must be evaluated on an ongoing basis to identify which of them no longer need these services

physiological state of the patient has been stabilized or has deteriorated

bibliographic reference

consenso de definiciones de vida en cuidados intensivos, asociación Colombiana de medicina critica y cuidado intensivo, federación panamericana ibérica de medicina critica y terapia intensiva. Distribuna 2008.