Amount of ICU Beds

[UbiquitousIngot9734]

Hi.

I currently have 9 ICU beds, but it's proving not enough.
Currently, I have emergency, general surgery and internal medicine up and running; however, it seems that sometimes the ICU gets completely filled.

So, what would you say is an ideal number of ICU Beds?

[MedJet]

oh boy, that is really dependent on dynamic variables. As your patient intake increases (both pedestrian and number of ambulances you have) it will increase. I see you don't have cardio up yet, nor internal med -- cardio will be a definite infusion to ICU. I'd at least work on doubling what you have now and as you go along seeing if you have reached a demand plateau (via visual checking or the game report at the end of the day). I chose to go in and "tweak" the amount of time patients spend in ICU down to 6 hours so that it moves intakes along a bit faster. Otherwise as you move along eventually 20+ rooms will be needed which isn't realistic at all. It's an issue with the gameplay design that definitely deviates from realism.

[vonMoo]

Originally posted by MedJet:

oh boy, that is really dependent on dynamic variables. As your patient intake increases (both pedestrian and number of ambulances you have) it will increase. I see you don't have cardio up yet, nor internal med -- cardio will be a definite infusion to ICU. I'd at least work on doubling what you have now and as you go along seeing if you have reached a demand plateau (via visual checking or the game report at the end of the day).

That's pretty much what I would have wrote. I think you'll be OK with about two more ICU beds until you open cardiology or neurology.

If it helps, I wrote a lot of stuff in 2 posts in the thread below about how to send ICU patients to the trauma centre if ICU isn't open, but it's what I do when ICU is full.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/868360/discussions/1/2245552086113474336/

[Tha Asix]

Right now with all the departments unlocked, I have 18 ICU beds of which mostly 10 are filled all the time.

[EndlessSauron]

It would depend on the amount of patients you have coming in. If you have 2 specialty departments open and only see 50 patients, I doubt you'd need more that 5-8 beds, but if your hospital is similar to mine, I see almost 120 patients and have 20 ICU beds ready and so far have seen up to 18 at 1 time, but its rare. Just need to be careful and just watch your patient flow and plan and understand your max patient load you can receive. No real definitive answer.

[你有点城市化了]

根据医院的规模而定，我有急诊、普通外科、内科、心脏科、神经科、骨科、耳鼻喉科、肿瘤科、妇科、性健康科，全部科室我都有，但是ICU床位我只设置了12张，完全足够 （因为我的医院定位是小型综合医院，小综合，每天病人总数控制在50人，对于我来说完全足够。）

[你有点城市化了]

According to the size of the hospital, I have a emergency, general surgery, internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, orthopedic and ent, oncology, gynecology, sexual health division, all departments I have, but I only set up 12 beds in the ICU, completely enough (because of my hospital location is small general hospital, comprehensive, small number of patients every day to control at 50 people, completely enough for me.)

[MedJet]

Originally posted by Endless:

It would depend on the amount of patients you have coming in. If you have 2 specialty departments open and only see 50 patients, I doubt you'd need more that 5-8 beds, but if your hospital is similar to mine, I see almost 120 patients and have 20 ICU beds ready and so far have seen up to 18 at 1 time, but its rare. Just need to be careful and just watch your patient flow and plan and understand your max patient load you can receive. No real definitive answer.

yes. while not ideal one can also manage the unit's capacity by shipping to other hospitals patients that occasionally end up in the ICU that are lower paying (mean, but, feasible) and thus manage your ICU by payout level.