AIHI Seminar Series 2016 - Dr Timothy Buchman and Cheryl Hiddleson

BRIDGING THE GAPS: THE “WHY, WHAT AND HOW” OF REMOTE CRITICAL CARE

The demand for critical care continues to rise, fuelled by an aging and chronically ill population. There are comparatively few critical care nurses and physicians, and they are concentrated in a few urban centres that exacerbates the mismatch between service demand and supply. In this presentation, the directors of the Emory eICUTM Center will review the history of critical care telehealth; describe the circumstances that led to Emory’s decision to adopt eICUTM as a component of the delivery system; discuss the implementation including reflections on barriers and how they were overcome; and report the current outcomes with respect to better health, better experience of care and lower cost. Attendees can expect to acquire basic practical knowledge about the advantages, limitations and costs of critical care telehealth sufficient to catalyse conversations about its appropriateness and utility in their local and regional situations.

Macquarie University Hospital is partnering with Emory to trial the eICU model from Australia, providing 24-hour inpatient remote monitoring to US patients.

Speaker profiles

Timothy Buchman, PhD, MD, FACS, FCCP, MCCM

Dr. Timothy Buchman is the founding director of Emory's Critical Care Center (ECCC), which is integrating ICUs throughout the Emory Healthcare system. The center has assembled clinicians, teachers and investigators from diverse disciplines. Dr. Buchman also founded the Emory eICU Center which provides remote critical care services to patients over a large footprint in multiple hospitals. Dr. Buchman is past president of the Shock Society, the Society for Complex Acute Illness and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the latter being the largest organization of critical care professionals worldwide. His research has spanned the bench-to-bedside continuum, including NIH-funded studies of physiological dynamics; of patient monitoring; of the genetics of sepsis and of ICU end-of-life care.

Before joining Emory, he served as the Edison Professor of Surgery and Director of Acute and Critical Care Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to his 15 years on the faculty at Washington University, Dr. Buchman directed the surgical intensive care unit and founded the trauma service at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he completed his surgical training.

Dr. Buchman has been a pilot for 44 years and holds Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor Certificates. The first computer he ever programmed was an IBM 1620 at Columbia University Teachers College using SPS, the 1620's assembly language.


Cheryl Hiddleson MSN, RN, CCRN-E

Cheryl is the Director of the Emory eICU Center. Cheryl completed her Masters degree in Clinical Nurse Leadership from The University of Alabama in 2013. She is a member of The Society of Critical Care Medicine, The American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Georgia Nurses Association, American Telemedicine Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Georgia Association of Nurse Leaders.

Cheryl joined Saint Joseph’s Hospital in 1991 and has held Surgical ICU as the daily charge nurse, critical care resource nurse, and most recently Administrative Supervisor/Flow Coordinator. She has extensive experience related to critical care, patient logistics, and patient flow/throughput. Cheryl is committed to advancing innovative care delivery methods such as tele-ICU and telehealth, to promote quality care for all patients regardless of location.

Participating in Yoga and road cycling are two of the activities she enjoys most when not working.