My unit is re-doing our 1:1 criteria (new director). The director wants us to help with this and there's been debate over an exact definition of hemodynamically unstable. Some bring info from the SCCM, some AACN, ASA, etc. She's doing this for our all of our units as well which adds some barriers as we have a Trauma, Shock, Medical, Cardiac ICU and each of those patient populations can come with their own definitions of instability that don't necessarily transfer over to another population. Has anyone gone through this type of remodeling or does anyone know of a source for a pretty inclusive definition of hemodynamically unstable?
(we suggested that we should just gather the info, meet with out medical director and come up with one that we can all agree on but apparently that's not going to happen...it's been rather frustrating to say the least haha).
