Critical Care

Enhanced Critical Care Program

What is Enhanced Critical Care?

Enhanced Critical Care is an electronic intensive care unit designed to improve care and shorten hospital stays. In addition to being cared for by local providers and nurses, patients benefit from telemedicine technology so that they can be monitored remotely by highly experienced intensivists, advanced care providers and critical care nurses who specialize in caring for people with complex medical and surgical problems.

How it works

In-room computers, high-quality video cameras and audio monitors transmit vital signs, test results and imaging exams from the patients' bedsides to an operations center located in Rochester, Minnesota. There, a team of providers and nurses continuously watches for small trends that could mean potential problems for patients. When a change is detected, the team alerts local staff so they can address the situation. High-definition monitors and video cameras allow the Mayo Clinic Enhanced Critical Care staff to communicate with local staff, patients and their families.

Benefits of Enhanced Critical Care

People may experience one or more of the following program benefits:

• Shorter hospital stays
• Improved results
• Fewer transfers to other facilities
• High level of care close to home
• Improved satisfaction
• Reduced cost of care

Education

Continuous professional development

Mayo Clinic offers continuous professional development courses in a learner-centered interactive format. Mayo Clinic courses are delivered by faculty who are renowned in their field and passionate about education. Participation in Mayo Clinic continuous professional development courses offers timely evidence-based practices that can be implemented immediately.

• Continuous professional development in critical care medicine
• Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development

Medical training

• Critical Care Anesthesiology Fellowship (Minnesota)
• Critical Care Internal Medicine Fellowship (Minnesota)