Cost savings up to $1 billion per quality-adjusted life year can be attained with critical care management of severe sepsis, acute respiratory failure, and general critical care interventions.
http://www.sccm.org/Communications/Pages/CriticalCareStats.aspx
Dividing that by 300 Million people we come up with $3,333 per person, per year or $277 a month. 20% of health care costs are for ICU care, which typically make up 1% of the beds in an average hospital. Daily ICU costs range from $2,000 - $3,000 per day in the US. (1996 figure). Conversations with Dr. K have revealed something I didn't quite get, but is probably obvious to medical professionals. It ain't the procedure, it's the bed.
http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2010/06/icu-expenses.html
All acute care hospitals have at least one ICU, and approximately 55,000 critically ill patients are cared or each day. In 2007, the number of adult critical care beds (medical, surgical, coronary care, neurological, and burn unit beds) totaled 67,357.
http://www.sccm.org/Communications/Pages/CriticalCareStats.aspx
More than half of the patients in the ICU are ventilated the first 24 hours after ICU admission; comprised of individuals who have acute respiratory failure, compromised lung function, difficulty in breathing, or failure to protect their airway.
http://www.aast.org/GeneralInformation/mechanicalventilation.aspx
Incremental costs per ICU bed using NPPs were $53,836 in Rochester, $23,776 in Jacksonville, and $11,899 in Scottsdale. CONCLUSION: Use of residents and fellows in ICU staffing at a major tertiary health center is more cost-efficient than use of NPPs.
http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2010/06/icu-expenses.html
Although patients in intensive care units (ICUs) receive care for a large variety of disease states, the leading causes of death in the ICU are multiorgan failure, cardiovascular failure, and sepsis. Multiorgan failure has a mortality rate of 11% to 18%.
http://www.sccm.org/Communications/Pages/CriticalCareStats.aspx
Cost Savings. Between 2000 and 2005, annual critical care medicine costs increased from $56.6 to $81.7 billion, representing 13.4% of hospital costs, 4.1% of national health expenditures, and 0.66% of gross domestic product.
http://www.sccm.org/Communications/Pages/CriticalCareStats.aspx
-Mean Length of Stay was 14.1 +/- 16.9 days, accounting for 7.1% of hospital days. -Mean hospital costs were $34,257 dollars (+/- $40,559 dollars) with lower average costs in rural and small hospitals. Discontinuing mechanical ventilation continues to be one of the most challenging events in ICU management, and a significant portion of time spent on the ventilator (40%) is dedicated to weaning..
http://www.aast.org/GeneralInformation/mechanicalventilation.aspx
An ICU bed costs you about $3500 a night. That's where the money is. There are levels just below that, I think the term is something like a 'telemetry bed', where you're basically hooked up to all the monitors and staffs are required to check on you every 10 minutes or once an hour depending on the level of care.
http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2010/06/icu-expenses.html
-A total of 44.6% had at least one major co-morbid condition; the most common co-morbidities included diabetes (13.2 %) and pulmonary disease (13.2%). -Daily incremental cost of mechanical ventilation for ICU patients is estimated at between $600 and $1500 per day.
http://www.aast.org/GeneralInformation/mechanicalventilation.aspx
cost of icu
The cost of an intensive care unit is approximately 55,000 critically ill patients on each day.