Winter 2006 Email Newsletter

First Quarter Winter 2006

LIVE ICU MONITORING BEGINS

On January 10, we began monitoring ICU patients at St. Marys Health Center in Jefferson City, Missouri, and at Saint Clare's Hospital in Weston, Wisconsin. Providing this real time, 24/7 remote computer monitoring of patients offers an enhanced level of care for some of the hospitals' most critically ill patients.

In fact, almost immediately after we began ICU monitoring, hospital patients, their families, and the hospitals' on-site medical staff started to see the results. In one case, through continuous monitoring of patient vital signs, the Advanced ICU Care intensivist team was able to alert on-site caregivers to a patient who was at risk for a potentially fatal disorder.

To ensure around-the-clock monitoring and care for up to 22 ICU patients at both hospitals, we have increased staffing to eight intensivists and 15 critical care nurses. Advanced ICU Care's medical staff now includes Dr. Robin Aguilar; Dr. Elizabeth Babb; Dr. Kenneth Bentley, also medical director of the ICU at SSM - St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood in Kirkwood, Missouri; Dr. Michael Cuipa; Dr. Frances Ntimba; and Dr. Rajesh Swaminathan, also associate director of the ICU at SSM - St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood. These physicians recently joined Dr. Dellice Dickhaus, Advanced ICU Care's medical director, and Dr. Isabelle Kopec, vice president of clinical services at Advanced ICU Care and a full-time practicing intensivist at SSM - DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton, Missouri where she chairs the Department of Critical Care Medicine.

Our 15 nurses, all experienced in critical care medicine, report to Christi Longnecker, RN, BSN, JD, Advanced ICU Care's eICU nurse manager, who joined the company last year.

$2.5 MILLION IN FINANCING RAISED

We also closed on $2.5 million in venture capital investment this quarter. Our partnership with our investors, including Catalyst Capital Management and Arboretum Ventures, will enable us to offer this enhanced level of care to ICU patients in hospitals across the county.

IN THE NEWS
Advanced ICU "is going to be able to pick up on the more subtle things that could lead the patient to have a code blue, which is when (his) heart or breathing stops," Russell said. "They see that this person is at risk before it happens, versus we'll see it happening and then try to fix it." -- Marilyn Russell, R.N., director of St. Marys Health Center's ICU. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 18, 2006).
Remote computer monitoring provides an added element to patient care with its "smart alerts" system, explained David Schopp, president of Advanced ICU Care.

(Betsy) Aderholdt (St. Marys president) talked of how the "smart alerts" system could potentially benefit patients. "What's so different is that, without this technology, we might not have picked out that trend as quickly," she said. "Lots of times, by virtue of the cumbersome system we work with, the nurse wouldn't call the doctor until the patient was really in trouble. At that point, we've lost a lot of ground. Through that computer assistance we'll know to begin to intervene much earlier ... It makes a nurse's practice more fulfilling, but mostly, it makes for safer patient care." (Jefferson City News-Tribune, Feb. 7, 2006).

To find out more about Advanced ICU Care, visit our website at www.icumedicine.com.