More than five million Americans wind up in an ICU every year and many of them suffer harm that could have been prevented. Victoria Colliver of the San Francisco Chronicle speaks with UCSF about its efforts to eliminate preventable harm and ensure patients and their loved ones are treated with dignity and respect. The work, called Project Emerge, includes technology that alerts medical staff to potential harms so they can take immediate preventative action. UCSF, along with its partner Johns Hopkins, is taking steps to humanize a patient and involve families in caring for their loved one.
“We tend to treat a patient like ‘This is a 65-year-old with pneumonia and sepsis,’ but this offers the opportunity to say ‘This is a retired woman with a family,’” said Dr. Michael Gropper, chairman of the anesthesiology department and principal investigator of the UCSF-Johns Hopkins effort funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
As Colliver points out in her story: at first glance this work may seem all about hardware but it's actually about flesh and blood. Read the full story here.
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