You can’t physically move an entire regional intensive care unit (ICU), but telehealth technology helps you come close. For hospitals in Kootenay Boundary without an ICU, specialists are using this technology to bring ICU expertise to emergency departments (EDs) in real time to care for critically ill or injured patients.
When it comes to these patients, time is of the essence. Recognizing this, a collaborative initiative between Interior Health, the Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice, and the Shared Care Committee (a partnership between Doctors of BC and the BC government), now allows consultations for critically ill or injured patients to occur quickly and efficiently with the use of telehealth technology.
