The 7,800-square-foot Joy and Don Massey Emergency Critical Care Center (EC3) opened in February 2015 in the Adult Emergency Department. It was created to improve access to timely critical care by enhancing the capacity and capability to deliver high quality critical care in the emergency department.
The nation’s first ICU located within an emergency department, EC3 has five resuscitation/trauma bays and nine patient rooms. It provides doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and others the necessary space and resources for the initial diagnosis, stabilization, and treatment of critically ill patients.
Why is this Important?
Critical illness and injury, when considered as a single entity, is the leading cause of death in the United States. It has become a national burden to emergency departments around the country at an alarming rate. This growth is expected to continue due to an aging population with increased comorbidities and complications of advanced medicine.
Goal
The goal of EC3 is to support the Michigan Medicine Strategic Plan by establishing multidisciplinary critical care protocols that ensures seamless transition from the emergency department to the inpatient ICUs. Furthermore, EC3 can enhance the capacity and capability to deliver high quality emergency critical care by creating a dedicated ICU with the emergency department.
EC3 is the ideal setting to provide contemporary critical care to our sickest patients, perform cutting-edge research through the Weil Institute for Critical Care Research & Innovation(link is external), and train future leaders in Emergency Critical Care.
Education
EC3 provides an opportunity to learn the interface between critical care and emergency medicine.
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