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Project Manager,
ADMC
Ph: + 61 3 9340 3422
E-Mail
ANZICS House
Level 2
10 Ievers Terrace
Carlton VIC 3053
Australia
Ph: +61 3 9340 3400
Fax: +61 3 9340 3499
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AORTIC - What's available?
- Aortic Update ( For current users of Version 7.0.0 or higher )
- This update will upgrade users of version 7.x to 8.0.0
- Aortic 8.0.0 Highlights
- Apache III score now calculated. All existing patients (with an ICU day) have an Apache III score and risk of death calculated as part of the upgrade process.
- New Apache III reports
- Can now capture data related to a patients weight and smoking in the hospital admission form
- Aortic 7.0.9 Highlights
- New reports and existing reports upgraded to facilitate the gathering of data for the annual CTG ICU survey
- Aortic 7.0.8 Highlights
- Fixes an error in the algorithm used to calculate the PIM2 score and Risk of Death for paediatric patients.
- Aortic 7.0.7 Highlights
- Expanded options in Intervention Patient Details report
- New paediatric fields
- Finder automatically scrolls to bottom if patient has more than one screen of data
- Fixed bug in List of Patients who died in ICU report.
- Report now based on ICU discharge date instead of ICU admission date
- Patients without an ICU day record are now displayed
- Aortic 7.0.5 Highlights
- Additional export file exclusions applied.
- Program calculations are independent of computer regional date settings
- This update fixes the country auto default problem on the patient data entry screen.
- The version numbers for the reporting tool (A2A) and AORTIC now match.
- Sub-code spelling errors have been fixed.
- Duplicate sub-code 1206.4 has been removed.
- Any existing 1206.4 entries are mapped to 1206.3
- Patient age displayed on the hospital and ICU admission forms is the age at the date of the admission rather than current age.
- Aortic Update ( For current users of Version 6.3.0 or higher - NB: 20MB )
- This update will upgrade users of 6.3.0 or higher to 8.0.0
- Note: To carry out the upgrade, you must be logged on as an administrator
- To upgrade, download the file and save to your local directory
- Double click on the file and choose unzip
- If you have any problems with the upgrade, check the trouble shooting guide.
- Please note: If your site is still using version 6.2.1 or lower, please contact the Adult Patient Database for alternate upgrade software:
AORTIC (Australasian Outcomes Research Tool for Intensive Care) is an intensive care database programme to support the ANZICS patient database. Its philosophy simple: to provide a tool for collecting a standardised data set to describe and compare intensive care practice across units. AORTIC was original developed by Dr T. Churches, Dr R. Herkes and Dr D. McWilliam. AORTIC is designed to operate on a Windows platform and can be networked.
AORTIC can collect data from multiple intensive care units in multiple hospitals is a single database. It has facilities for recording patient demographics, hospital and ICU admission data together with diagnostic, physiologic intervention and outcome data related to intensive care. Physiology and intervention data can be collected for each day in ICU if required.
Features of AORTIC include:
- Easy user-interface
- ICD9-CM codes (both diagnostic and intervention codes can be stored for the hospital admission)
- Capacity for customized data fields at all levels in the database
- Daily physiologic data storage and scoring (optional)
- Error checking on data input
- Interventions can be recorded in detail for the whole of ICU admission
- Data can be exported to other applications in a wide range of formats
- ACHS indicators for ICU can be stored (except inability to admit to ICU)
New Features of AORTIC 7.0.0:
- Inclusion of ANZPIC Paediatric Fields
- Additional interventions - List of interventions can also be customised to reflect the preferred or most used interventions
- Additional APACHE III diagnostic codes
- Incorporation of A2A and Yourhospital into the AORTIC front interface
- Increased number of customisable tab forms
NB: These files are now held in a secure directory. To download these files you will need a username and password - Apply Here..
Data collection forms (View PDF Version) have been designed in conjunction with AORTIC 2K. A copy of this form is included in the AORTIC new release package that you will receive. Feel free to adjust this form to cater for your hospitals specific needs.
NB: An Instruction Guide for collecting the data is also available in PDF format.
For inquiries on the AORTIC software, please contact:
Carol George
Ph: 03 9340 3423
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