Intensive Care Unit
(ICU)
We support ICU teams so they can give every critically ill patient—from the smallest neonates to elderly adults—the best opportunity for recovery.
Step Inside Our Connected Hospital
Step into our 3D Virtual Experience Center. Tour the ICU, along with a nurses’ station, Med-Surg and OR to see how our solutions can support care teams.
Always Ready in the ICU
Staffing shortages. High-acuity patients. High-pressure shifts. ICU clinicians experience a range of challenges every day. We’re here to support you and your team, whether it’s solutions to help lessen the burden or technologies to help improve workflow efficiency and protect staff safety. Explore all the ways we’re supporting the ICU.
Critical Nutrition for Critical Patients
When patients are malnourished due to not receiving adequate calories, protein and other nutrients needed for tissue maintenance and repair, there can be significant human and healthcare costs. We offer options for multi-chamber PN solutions with or without electrolytes or individual source solution containers, amino acids (protein), dextrose (carbohydrate) and IV fat emulsion (lipids), all suitable for compounding.
Q-NRG+ Metabolic Monitor
Q-NRG+ is the next generation of indirect calorimetry (IC), enabling fast, accurate and intuitive resting energy expenditure (REE) measurements.
Clinical Nutrition
Address malnutrition with clinical nutrition solutions designed to support individualized therapy, operational efficiency and improved patient outcomes.
IV Solutions
Support everyday care with a broad IV solutions portfolio designed to meet common medication and hydration needs across acute care settings.
Reduce ICU Staff Burden
The ICU is a challenging environment — and we are here to support the clinicians at the heart of it. When care teams can center their focus and activities around patient care, rather than administrative tasks and endless distractions, the possibilities for saving and sustaining lives are endless.
Reduce Alarm Fatigue
Is alarm overload affecting your team? Cut through the noise and elevate what’s urgent to help your clinicians focus on patient care. With our Voalte Alert and Alarm Management solution, you can:
- Collect and consolidate alert and alarm activity for near-real-time analysis
- Filter with customizable rules to determine which patient alarms are clinically relevant
- Access waveforms, vitals and trends at your fingertips
Powerful Integration: Voalte Nurse Call with Progressa+
In the ICU, you need timely, actionable information to help protect your most critical patients and support your busy care teams. Progressa+ ICU beds integrate with Voalte Nurse Call to keep your clinicians connected to the data they need.
Falls Prevention
Adding technology to your falls protocol can have an impact. With our Voalte Patient Safety application, you can help your team respond quickly when patients are at risk. From automatically re-arming the bed exit alert to continuously monitoring bed state, caregivers are notified the moment things change.
Patient Status At a Glance
The Voalte Status Board brings together important information like patient risk status, nurse call activity, staff locations and assignments, and bed status, providing a full view of the entire unit.
Reporting and Analytics
Enterprise reporting offers a retrospective view to help inform benchmarking and give care teams the performance data they need. Get insights into bed alarm history, caregiver workload, patient experience and investigate incidents like falls with ease.
Proven Powers Possible
The IQX Infusion Platform unites two proven technologies, the Spectrum IQ Large Volume Pump and the Novum IQ Syringe Pump, to create an enhanced infusion delivery ecosystem, powered by the IQ Enterprise Connectivity Suite.
Safety Limits Designed for the ICU
There is no area of the hospital where medication safety is more critical. Our customizable drug library software and titration error prevention work together to set ICU-specific limits and enable the pump to intercept certain dose and rate changes.
Integrated with the EHR
Our pumps feature bidirectional integration with your EHR, supporting the broadest range of pump programming workflows. This level of automation can lessen the burden on your ICU nurses, given the volume of infusions they are managing during a shift.
Powerful Analytics
Transform your infusion data into clear, actionable insight reports2 that can help support continuous quality improvement initiatives in the optimization of drug libraries and enhancement of clinical practice.
Advancing Personalized Fluid Management
Non-invasive and flexible, the Starling fluid management system delivers meaningful insights that guide accurate, patient-specific clinical decisions—helping to deliver the right fluid therapy to the right patient, every time.
Improve Staff Safety with Real-Time Precision Locating
Violence against clinicians has long been a pressing concern for the healthcare industry, with violence in healthcare about four times more prevalent than in any other industry.4 The right technologies can help support a safer environment.
- Duress Buttons: Alert the right response teams to unsafe scenarios at the touch of a button.
- Real-Time Locations: Track staff locations for quicker responses to duress alerts.
Early Mobility Enhancement
In the ICU, movement is key to stability. Help your high-acuity patients recover more quickly by getting them moving earlier and often. We can help.
Immobility in the ICU is associated with muscular atrophy, delirium, pulmonary issues, skin breakdown, bacterial infections and depressive moods.10 Early mobility programs have been shown to be safe, feasible and effective for ICU patients. In fact, a study conducted at the Cleveland Clinic with 637 neurology ICU patients found that a progressive mobility program (featuring in-bed pulmonary therapy) led to:
33%
46%
30%
Protect Clinicians and Get Patients Moving Sooner
We believe safety and mobility should go hand in hand — and that applies to clinicians as well as patients. Our safe patient handling solutions can help you safely mobilize patients without risking injury or requiring more clinicians than necessary.
Overhead Lifts
Always on hand to help you mobilize patients safely and easily
Mobile Lifts
Bringing safe patient handling support wherever you need it
Slings and Accessories
A range of accessories to best support different patient weights and clinical environments
Diversify Your Pulmonary Therapies
When our customers combine both oscillation and lung expansion therapy and high-frequency chest wall oscillation into one comprehensive airway clearance protocol, they have seen results across the hospital with multiple patient types.
- 3.4 day hospital LOS reduction with bronchopulmonary hygiene protocol with pneumonia patients5,6
- 1 day ICU LOS reduction with volume expansion protocol with trauma patients7
With more options for respiratory therapy, you can expand your respiratory therapists’ possibilities for critical decision-making and care planning.
Pressure Mitigation
Immobility is common in the ICU. Complications like pressure injuries don’t have to be. We can help you protect your patients’ skin integrity and keep them on the path to recovery with specialized ICU beds and surfaces.
Reduce Pressure Injuries
When you’re helping patients recover, the last thing you need is a pressure injury working against them. Yet hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) are a growing concern in intensive care and beyond:
- 2.5M Patients
Develop HAPIs annually, representing 8.3% of hospital admissions8,9 - $3.3B - $11B
Estimated annual cost of care from pressure injuries8,9
To help reduce pressure injuries and help improve clinical outcomes, rethink your equipment. The right ICU beds and surfaces can help.
U.S. Product Catalog
Looking for detailed information on products Baxter offers in the United States? Find what you need on our digital catalog, including configurations, parts and accessories, ordering information, and more.
Experience This Care Setting Live
See how our ICU solutions come together to support patient safety. Visit one of our U.S. Customer Experience Centers in Raleigh, North Carolina, Batesville, Indiana or Irvine, California for hands-on demonstrations, personalized consultations, continuing education and more.
References
- Baxter Internal Testing. Data on file.
- Baxter Healthcare Corporation. IQ Enterprise Connectivity Suite Reports: Application User Manual. 07-19-00-3563E1. 2024.
- Klein KE, Bena JF, Albert NM. (2015). Impact of early mobilization on mechanical ventilation and cost in neurological ICU. Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 191:A2293.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (2015, December). Home | occupational safety and health administration. OSHA. Retrieved March 17, 2023, from https://www.osha.gov/sites/de fault/files/OSHA3826.pdf.Jaye D. Presented at NTI. 2016.
- Grasley T. The MetaNeb® System in an acute care hospital setting: an assessment of impact on hospital length of stay using a failure mode and effects analysis. Hill-Rom White Paper. 2012.
- CDC/NCHS National Hospital Discharge Survey, 2010.
- Nyland B, Spilman S, Halub M, et al. A preventative respiratory protocol to identify trauma subjects at risk for respiratory compromise on a general inpatient ward. Respiratory Care. 2016. doi:10.4187/respcare.04729.
- Padula, WV, and BA Delarmente. “The National Cost of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries in the United States.” Int Wound J, 2019, pp. 1-7.
- Alderden, J, et al. “Outcomes Associated With Stage 1 Pressure Injuries: A Retrospective Cohort Study.” Am J Crit Care, vol. 27, no. 6, Nov. 2018, pp. 471-476.. 2012;366(18):1716-23.. 2012;366(18):1716-23.
- Krupp A, Ehlenbach W, King B. Factors nurses in the intensive care unit consider when making decisions about patient mobility. Am J Crit Care. 2015;24(800):474-479.
Disclaimers
Rx Only. For safe and proper use of product mentioned herein, please refer to the Instructions for Use or Operator Manual.
Baxter, ELI, IQ Enterprise, IQX, Novum IQ, Progressa+, Spectrum IQ, Starling, Synclara, The Vest, Voalte, Voalte Linq and Volara are trademarks of Baxter International Inc. or its subsidiaries. Any other trademarks, product names or brand images are the property of their respective owners.
Q-NRG+ is a registered trademark of Cosmed Inc.
Oneview Care Experience Platform is a trademark of Oneview Healthcare.