2. Digital Critical Care
• Critical care units in Royal and Aintree Hospital are using
Philips ICCA for electronic patient records
• Once a patient is admitted to Critical Care, all the patient’s
documentation MUST be done in ICCA rather than PENS / ADT
• There are a few exceptions which will be covered in the later
slides
Key Point: Document in ICCA under Speciality Notes whenever you
document anything about a patient who is in Critical Care
(Ward round, referral outcome, progress note)
3. Training and Access
• You’ll need ICCA training and access as you join the trust, you’ll
need it when you:
• Review patient in Critical care
• See referrals in Critical care
• Want to read current and historical Critical Care notes
• (Note: ICU admission and discharge summary will be sent to PENS)
• To gain access:
• Once you have completed this training slide, please contact IT helpdesk
for access.
4. Scope of Training
• You will learn how to:
• Log on and off
• Basic navigation
• Review patients’ obs charts, drug charts, case notes
• Write in patients’ notes
• We will also cover:
• What stays in the current trust EPR system
6. Logging On & Off
On your desktop:
1. Double click on ICCA icon
If there is no icon, find a cloud PC or log in via remote cloud access
2. Enter your Username & Password
This is the same as ADT Dashboard
3. Choose the correct domain
If not defaulted to your site
7. Once you log in, you will see this Census board
It should show you the patient list of your base ICU
You will also see:
1. Top menus
2. Various Critical Care units on the left
To Log off:
Click on the x button on the top right.
Census Board
9. Home Menu
Click ‘Find Patient…’ to search for:
• Admitted patient – Easier if you search in the unit where the patient is currently in
• Discharged patient – Useful when you received a step-down patient
Click ‘Text Size’ to adjust font sizes
You can also split the screen by:
‘Vertical Split’ or ‘Horizontal Split’
Please do not use the rest of the buttons
10. Census Menu
Please do not use any of the buttons here
All bed movement is handled in Whiteboard
Using these buttons will break the patient flow.
12. Selecting a Unit: Admitted Pts
1. The system should automatically log
you into the unit where you are based.
Otherwise, pick a unit on the left.
2. It will show Admitted Patients by
default
3. You can see patients’ details:
• Bedspace
• Name
• Hospital Number
• Date of Birth
• Age
• Gender
• Speciality
• Length of stay
• Level of care
• Step down readiness
• IPC concerns
• Trial(s) enrolled
13. Selecting a Unit: Discharge Pts
Clicking on the Discharged Patients will show all
discharged patients in the last 30 days
14. Adding a Patient to ‘My Patients’ list
In Admitted Pt board,
Right click on a patient to ‘Add to My
Patients List’
This is helpful if you are reviewing a
patient regularly
Your saved list is on the top left of
the blue panel called ‘My Patients’
Please do not Transfer, Discharge
or Move/Swap
16. Opening a Patient’s note
Double click on patient’s name to open a note
The default view will be the patient’s Observation chart
17. Reviewing Patient
There are generally 3 main document types to review:
1.Observation charts
2.Clinical Notes
3.Drug chart
18. Reviewing Observation Charts
The system shows
Clinician Overview and
Continuous Drug Infusions
by default.
Clicking on another tab will
‘stack on’ to the currently
opened tab. Example in this is
the Clinician Overview Graph
Double clicking on a tab will
show only the tab and hide the
rest
19. Reviewing Observation Charts
Right clicking on the timeline
above the chart will enable you
to:
1. Adjust the interval of the
observation shown
2. Go to a specific date
21. Reviewing Clinical Notes
Section Contains
Overview Clinical Summary and Patient Profile – At a glance clinical information about patient
Charts Observation Charts
Lab Test Common lab results
Radiology Radiology reports
Microbiology All microbiology information during this admission goes here
Medications Drug charts
Clinical Notes All clinical notes go here – Most relevant section to visiting team
Nursing Notes Risk assessment, Daily Management and Care plans
AHP Notes Physio, OT, SALT, Dietitian, Clinical psychology notes
Procedures Procedures notes – excluding IR procedures and operation notes (in PENS)
Communications Patient or family discussion documentation
Escalation Plan Documentation of limitation of treatment. CPR status is in ADT Dashboard
Research Research Notes
Audit ICU use only
Discharge Discharge summaries
Word Report ICU use only
Imported Documents Limited imported documents relevant to ICU stay
22. Reviewing Clinical Notes – Clinical Summary
Under Overview > Clinical Summary
This document aggregates all the relevant
clinical information to give you a picture of
patient’s background, clinical course, latest
ward round issues & plan.
It also display the latest relevant vitals sign
23. Reviewing Clinical Notes – Clinical Notes
ICCA displays clinical notes by date
Notes are arranged in reverse chronological order
Click through the notes one by one to see its content
This is different from PENS where you scroll through a timeline
Generally, there are:
• Daily Ward Round – One per day
• ICU Notes – Any free text entries by ICU staff
• Speciality Notes – Any free text entries by non-ICU staff
24. Reviewing Clinical Notes – Search
There is a Search function if you are looking for
something specifically
Shortcut Key Ctrl + F
You can search for a document by:
• Document Title – The name of the form (or part of)
• Document Type
• Date Range
• Document Content
• User Name
25. Reviewing Clinical Notes – Search Result
Search result returns in alphabetical order
then reverse chronological order.
Specialty Note may be hard to delineate as almost all
visiting team uses the same note
It is mandatory for visiting team to input their team
name
They are all attached with a hashtag - #[Team Name]
If you want to filter a specific speciality, search by
Document Content #[Team Name]
For example, searching #Cardio will return all
Cardiology notes
26. Under Medication section, the most relevant ones are:
• Drug Chart
• Medications Overview
• Medicines Reconciliation
Non-ICU staff can view the drug chart but cannot prescribe
Please speak to ICU staff for any prescription advice
Reviewing Drug Chart
27. Reviewing Drug Chart
There are 4 main types of drugs by frequency:
• Scheduled (Regular)
• One Time (Stat)
• PRN (As required)
• Continuous
Legend:
• Ticked boxed – Administered
• Unticked boxed – Due / Overdue
• Half-shaded red box - Held
29. Writing Clinical Notes
There are only 2 forms that non-ICU staff document in
(Unless otherwise pre-arranged):
1. Speciality Notes
2. Speciality Notes (with ICU Summary)
30. Writing Clinical Notes – Add Document
On the top left corner, click Add Document
All available documents are listed by default
Search for Speciality… under the Filter field
Speciality Note & Speciality Note (With ICU
Summary) will appear
Double click on the document you wish to create
Then click OK
31. Writing Clinical Notes – Types of Speciality Notes
Speciality Note
This is the same as free text note in PENS
You must pick your Speciality / Team from the list
This is suitable for:
Ward round, ad hoc quick documentation
Speciality Note (with ICU Summary)
This is the same as Speciality Note except with
pre-populated information about patient
This is suitable for:
Referral review, specialist nurse review
32. Writing Clinical Notes – Types of content
Green text is content carried from previous note
• You need to click on it to verify it if you want to
keep the content
• If you don’t verify it, it will disappear when you
save the form.
Pink text is unsaved content
Black text is saved content
Please don’t edit the content of ICU Summary
Click through the content to turn Green text to Pink
Choose your Speciality / Team
Enter your name, role and contact number
Type your note
Save note (see next slide)
33. Saving Clinical Notes
The Save Chart button will only be active when
you click away from the content field
The quickest way would be to click on those
area on the left (shaded pink area in this
screenshot only)
Saved content will now be black
Note that the content from Diagnosis has
disappeared because I did not verify it
You can also save note by using shortcut key
Ctrl + S
On the top left corner, click Save Chart
You will be prompted to enter your username
and password
34. Editing Clinical Notes
Previous version
Current version
There is an audit trail for note edit
If a note content has been changed, a clock icon will appear
on the right
To look at the edit history, right click and click Properties
You can see the historical
version below the current
versions
35. Deleting Clinical Notes
If you have made an error and would like to
delete your note
Find your notes on the left under Clinical Notes
Double check that this is the correct note you
want to delete
Right click on it
Click Discontinue
The discontinued note will have a strike
through it
Other users can choose to hide discontinued
to make it invisible
36. Components remaining in Trust system
Several trust level documents remains
as they are
The following is a non-exhaustive list:
• DNAR
• Consent Form 1
• Consent Form 4
• Capacity Assessment
• DOLS
• VTE Assessment
• Operation notes
• Theatre pathway
37. Team Specific Workflow
Please visit http://luhft.icu/dcc-team
for further information relevant to your team / role / department.
If otherwise not listed in the page, then please use:
• Speciality Note or
• Speciality Note (With ICU Summary).
38. End of Training
• Please contact IT helpdesk for access if not already given during
induction after training completion.
• ICCA is accessible in all cloud PC
• If you use non cloud PC in your office or laptop, please go to Start
> Software center and install ICCA
Thank You!