Critical Care & Quality

• Avera Quality Indicators
• Avera eICU CARE - State-of-the-art equipment provides patients an extra level of care in the intensive care unit, and many times that means helping to save lives.  Avera eICU CARE acts like an air traffic control room. From an operations center on the Avera McKennan Hospital campus in Sioux Falls, S.D., specially trained physicians, or intensivists, who specialize in caring for critically ill patients, and critical care nurses constantly monitor patient conditions at numerous Avera sites through several computers and powerful, real-time cameras.  Information such as patients' vital signs, medications, x-rays and test results are sent to the operations center via secure, high-speed data lines. Computers continuously analyze the information, helping the intensivists recognize changes in patient conditions. This allows for early intervention through coordination with on-site ICU physicians and nurses before significant problems arise.  View the Avera eICU CARE video >>