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\u201cWe worked closely with Wes Ely\u2019s team both to design what these workflows would look like in Epic and to craft recommendations to help hospitals operationalize this way of doing things in the ICU,\u201d says Jeff Wolanin, lead of the Epic Foundation System. \u201cWe feel very passionate that this clinical program not only saves lives but also improves the quality of people\u2019s lives post-ICU.\u201dVUMC and other medical centers that assisted Epic on the project are using the EHR system update and associated ICU workflows.The Society of Critical Care Medicine\u2019s ICU Liberation Bundle is designed to improve patient outcomes and reduce the risk of long-terms consequences that arise from the harmful effects of pain, agitation, sedation, delirium, immobility and sleep disruption. \u201cStudies have shown that implementing ventilator weaning protocols, maintaining light levels of sedation, and preventing and managing delirium can improve patient outcomes,\u201d according to the Society of Critical Care Medicine. \u201cEarly mobilization and family engagement also play a key role in reducing long- and short-term consequences of an ICU stay. The greatest benefit occurs when these interventions are combined.\u201d\u201cWhat this bundle does is stop people from just looking at one organ at a time,\u201d adds Ely. \u201cIt takes the overall person and says, \u2018This is a whole human being, and we\u2019re going to pay attention to how their brain is working, and their liver and lung and kidney, all at once. And we\u2019re going to wake them up, we\u2019re going to get them out of the bed, we\u2019re going to walk them.\u2019 It makes us take a step back and help people avoid injury that might otherwise occur in intensive care."","saveContent":"A new software release by Epic Systems planned for next month is intended to help clinicians prevent delirium in intensive care unit patients by using a clinical protocol. The protocol\u2014called the ICU Liberation Bundle\u2014is the basis for the Epic software update and in February will become a standard part of the vendor\u2019s electronic health record system. In the meantime, it is available to Epic\u2019s customers as an add-on.E. Wesley Ely, MD, professor of medicine and critical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was the principal investigator for a project sponsored by the Society of Critical Care Medicine to improve patient outcomes in U.S. hospitals by leveraging the ICU Liberation Bundle.\u201cNew support from a major EHR company like Epic means that fewer patients stand to undergo ICU delirium and its harrowing consequences,\u201d says Ely, co-director of VUMC\u2019s Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship Center. \u201cThis Epic Foundation System build allows streamlined implementation and better compliance, which, according to more than 20,000 patients\u2019 worth of data we\u2019ve published, yields less time on the ventilator, shorter ICU stays, reduced costs and improved survival.\u201d

New Epic EHR software update to target ICU delirium

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