We’re celebrating extraordinary new intensive care equipment for the hour of need – thanks to a collaboration between the Friends of the RUH and RUHX.
The RUH treats over eight hundred patients a year needing intensive care. Patients suffering from serious accidents, short-term conditions like a heart attack or stroke and serious infection. From March 2025 they’ll be treated in the RUH’s brand new ICU ward facilities that include 13 bed pendants provided by Friends of the RUH and RUHX supporters. The benefits these pendants bring include:
1 – improved access to patients and, crucially, immediate access to the head of the bed in an emergency
2 – housing the new Clinical Information System (CIS), bedside computer and all interconnecting cables. Saving thousands of hours of staff time spend manually recording important data and informing better care decisions
3 – delivery of medical equipment, gasses and all electricity required from a single point.
With your support we are incredibly proud to have helped the RUH create world class intensive care facilities here, facilities that are for everyone needing intensive care – in their critical hour of need where every second matters.
William (Billy) Headdon (Consultant in Anaesthesia and ICM / Clinical Lead for Intensive Care) commented about the new charity funded equipment “There are multiple benefits for our ICU team from this new equipment that include – Enhanced Workflow Efficiency / Improved Access to Patients / Increased Safety. Thank You”
And Marghanita (Margi) Jenkins (Matron for Intensive Care and Critical Care Outreach) added “The main patient benefits of the pendants are multiple – faster emergency responses, reduced infection risk, better comfort and safety and improved monitoring that means better care decision making for our patients.”
Billy, Margi and Team at their recent new ICU opening ceremony:
To find out more about this new equipment you can watch this short video that explains what Friends of the RUH and RUHX together have provided for the RUH’s new ICU: