Objective
The European health services have well responded to the Covid-19 emerging crisis, especially if and where the intensive care unit (ICU) capacities were sufficient, were prepared and collectively cooperating, sharing knowledge and were able to protect from further spreading of the disease among the healthcare workforce and the patients. Today, only 47% of hospitals have the recommended coverage of intensive care specialists and they are unevenly distributed between centres and periphery. The Cyber-Physical System for Telemedicine and Intensive Care (CPS4TIC) enables existing or new ICU structures to transform and operate as one ICU Hub with one central ICU and connected ICUs in peripheral hospitals. CPS4TIC was used successfully in the first wave of Covid-19 to ensure efficient and effective diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19 patients, while reducing the risk of infection drastically. The CPS4TIC consists of a telemedicine cockpit, telemedicine consoles at each peripheral hospital, a connector platform and smart bedside hubs including robotic arm at the bedsides of both, the central telemonitoring clinics and the peripheral telemonitored hospitals. The ICU hub operates telemedicine, continuous real-time telemonitoring and bedside smart care environment. The bedside smart care environment reduces the risk of infection for the health workforce significantly both for the central and the peripheral hospitals. ICU4Covid will deploy and test the CPS4TIC at large-scale, in 4+4 ICU Hubs in Europe (4 from initial consortium and 4 selected by an Open Call), involving more than 30000 patients/year with a coverage of approximately 60 Million citizens.
Field of science
- /medical and health sciences/clinical medicine/critical care medicine
- /medical and health sciences/health sciences/infectious disease/RNA virus/coronavirus
Call for proposal
H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020-2-CNECT
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
2829-516 Caparica
Portugal
Participants (18)
52074 Aachen
52062 Aachen
33615 Bielefeld
52066 Aachen
52351 Duren
52222 Stolberg
52428 Julich
4362 Esch-sur-alzette
2829 516 Caparica
1649-028 Lisbon
9050-027 Funchal
8600 513 Lagos
1010 Wien
1090 Wien
1010 Wien
54623 Thessaloniki
5656 AG Eindhoven
45110 Ioannina