Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Management System for Dengue Ward
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2020Author
Weerakoon, WMCDK
Rowel, MMK
Abeyrathne, EMUWKM
Gunathilake, MDC
Kurukulasuriya, MR
Kumara, PPNV
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Abstract: Intensive care units(ICU) in Sri
Lankan hospital systems are generally
managed manually. Using a manual system
for the ICU can cause many difficulties as the
ICU is the main department in a hospital.
After analysing the current procedure at
Kalubowila Teaching Hospital we observed
that it normally takes 24 hours to identify
and direct a seriously ill dengue patient to the
ICU from the High Dependency Unit(HDU).
Patients with the Dengue virus will have
similar symptoms. Thereby the next patient
who needs to be admitted into the ICU has to
be more ailing than the rest of the patients in
the HDU. If the correct patient to be admitted
is not identified, another patient in the unit
could fall into a more severe case. ICU
Management System is a web based system
that has the ability to identify the next most
critical Dengue patient that should be treated
in the ICU using a specific score. The score is
calculated by monitoring the symptoms of
the patient and giving a separate value to
each symptom. The calculated score depends
on the severity of the patient. This paper
presents the design and implementation of
this ICU Management System and offers a
comparative study about existing Hospital
Management Systems.
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