care unit £1,702 per bed per day for a pediatric intensive care unit £1,328 per bed per day for an adult intensive care unit Remote collaboration systems Some hospitals have installed teleconferencing systems that allow doctors and nurses at a central facility (either in the same building, at a central location serving several local hospitals, or in rural locations another more urban facility) to collaborate with on-site staff and speak with patients (a form of telemedicine). This is variously called an eICU, virtual ICU, or tele-ICU. Remote staff typically have access to vital signs from live monitoring systems, and telectronic health records so they may have access to a broader view of a patient's medical history. Often bedside and remote staff have met in person and may rotate responsibilities. Such systems are beneficial to intensive care units in order to ensure correct procedures are being followed for patients vulnerable to deterioration, to access vital signs remotely in order to keep patients that would have to be transferred to a larger facility if need be he/she may have demonstrated a significant decrease in stability. See also ICU quality and management tools Intensive Care Foundation, a charity in Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Medicine (journal) Open-source ventilator References Further reading External links Society of Critical Care Medicine ICUsteps – Intensive care patient support charity Organisation for Critical Care Transportation Intensive care medicine Hospital departments