Critical Care Delivery Made Better

Marc Zubrow, MD, director of critical care medicine at Wilmington, DE-based Christiana Care Health System and medical director of the Maryland eCare project, shares strategies to improve the delivery of critical care and offers a preview of the upcoming HealthLeaders Media Webcast, ICU Overhaul 2009: Strategies to Reduce Cost and Improve Quality. For example, Christiana Care introduced sepsis resuscitation and critical care management standards that led to a 49% decrease in mortality rates and a 34% decrease in average length of stay in sepsis patients.