Intensive Care Unit- Bed Information System (ICU-BIS)

Data collected by ICU-BIS falls into two categories; ICU occupancy data and COVID-19 specific patient data.

ICU occupancy data; Total beds, Staffed /Open beds, occupied beds, reserved beds for new admission, patients cleared for discharge to a ward bed, available beds, number of patients invasively ventilated, number of patients receiving Dialysis (both Intermittent haemodialysis (IHD)& Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).

COVID-19 specific patient data; (i) numbers of COVID-19 patients in each Unit, (ii) numbers invasively ventilated, (iii) new admissions, (iv) discharges and (v) deaths in the last 24 hours.

Patient level data on COVID-19 patients regarding age, sex, vaccination status, whether currently or recently pregnant (If female), primary reason for admission to ICU (COVID or Non-COVID), location in, source of infection (if known).

Purpose: To provide timely data for managing ICU capacity, bed availability and facilitation of inter-hospital transfers. During the pandemic, ICU-BIS scope expanded to provide information on COVID-19 specific data and trends for decision makers in the HSE and Department of Health to guide policy.

In-scope: Intensive care units occupancy and capacity data.

Out of scope: detailed patient level information, this is collected via the ICU audit.

Coverage: National ;  26 adult public hospitals who have an ICU  2 paediatric ICUs at CHI  5 private hospitals who have an ICU. Temporal coverage: March 2020 to date.