Neuroscience/Trauma Intensive Care Unit (6ICU)

What to Expect

• Members of our team may rotate on and off the team during the patient's stay. All team members will introduce themselves and let you know what role they have in your loved one's healthcare.
• The assessment of your loved one's neurological condition and prognosis typically takes several days. We will make every effort to make a timely, accurate and honest evaluation and provide you with any available information.
• We expect to develop a daily plan of care and discuss this briefly with the family spokesperson during daily rounds.
• We expect to develop a comprehensive care plan, including transitioning to the next level of care. Again, this will be discussed with the family spokesperson.
• Should you need additional resources during this difficult time, we can provide social work and spiritual care support.
• We expect to use the most advanced technology to care for your loved one, which includes brain wave monitoring, imaging tests and robotic telepresence, to name a few. Yet, we want to assure you that these are merely tools to enable us to provide humanistic care for your family member.
• UCLA is an academic medical center where teaching takes place. You may be seen by several doctors at various levels of training. Your family member may qualify for a novel treatment or study. You may inquire about all of this during our daily rounds.

Safety Guidelines

• Please designate one family spokesperson or a trusted friend to serve as the patient's advocate. This designated person will be allowed to remain in the room for morning rounds with the Neuro Critical Care team. Rounds are from 8 am to noon daily.
• For telephone updates, the patient’s last four digits of the Medical Record Number must be used to confirm patient identification. Only the designated spokesperson may call for updates.
• Fresh flowers, latex balloons, cameras, photography, pets, glass and food are not allowed in the ICU.
• If you need items from the Nourishment Room or need ice, water or coffee, please ask the staff for assistance.
• Your loved one will be hooked up to a lot of medical equipment. For patient safety, please do not touch the medical equipment.
• Please understand there may be times the patient may not feel up to having a visitor.
• We ask that children under the age of 12 years do not visit unless cleared with the nurse.
• In the event of an emergency, you may be asked to leave the ICU. If so, please leave promptly.
• No visitor with cold or flu symptoms or other contagious conditions is allowed in the ICU.
• If your loved one has been cared for by a physician outside UCLA who would like to contact our ICU physicians, please encourage him of her to do so by calling the numbers provided.

These guidelines are subject to modification according to patient needs.

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