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The Tele-ICU: Two hospitals join forces—and technology—to treat seriously ill patients in the Capital Region.

December 10, 2014

Our Lady of the Lake’s Director of Critical Care Medicine Rich — (Photo by Don Kadair) Combining virtual and wireless technology and special two-way videoconferencing equipment placed in ICU rooms at Woman's Hospital, specialists at a command center at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center monitor in real time the vital signs of critically ill patients.

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(Photo of the Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center command center: Don Kadair) Through a partnership between Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Woman’s Hospital, seriously ill patients across greater Baton Rouge are benefiting from increased access to critical care specialists. This fall, intensivists—highly trained physicians who specialize in the

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