Critical Care Administration

Jorge Hidalgo, MD, MCCM, MACP, FCCPProfessor of Critical CareHead Division of Critical CareKarl Heusner Memorial HospitalBelize City, BelizeCentral America
Javier Pérez-Fernández, MD, FCCM, FCCPMedical Director, Critical Care ServicesBaptist Hospital of MiamiSouth Florida Critical Care ServicesAssociate Clinical Professor of MedicineFlorida International UniversityHerbert Wertheim School of MedicineMiami, FLUSA
Gloria M. Rodríguez-Vega, MD, MCCM, FACP, FCCPChief, Department of Critical Care Director, Neurosurgical ICUHIMA-San Pablo-Caguas, CaguasPuerto Rico

Critical Care Services: Scope of Practice.- Planning and Budgeting.- Setting the Goals.- Administration Support.- Quality Indicators: The Use of Metrics in Critical Care Medicine.- Internal Financial Audits in the ICU.- Models of Staffing.- Tele-ICU.- Digital Transformation: The Smart ICU.- Protocols, Policies, and Procedures: Tools for Quality Improvement in Critical Care.- ICU Design.- Disaster Preparedness and Management.- Critical Care Educational Modeling.- Humanizing Critical Care.- Billing and Coding.- Intensive Care Burnout.- Complementary Therapies.- Establishing a Research Program in the ICU.- Patient Safety in Intensive Care Medicine.