MICU/IMCU Transfers

Standard policy is for any MICU/IMCU patients who are transferred to the floor between the hours of 6:30 pm – 6:30 am will continue to be covered by the MICU nightfloat teams. In the morning, the receiving team (whether that’s medicine, hospitalist, or family medicine) should page the respective MICU team (RED, BLUE, or GREEN) for sign-out. This policy was put in place to prevent the double hand-off situation that you described. I attached our ICU Night Float policy which contains the line “Continue to care for patients transferred out of the ICU to the floor until MICU team can pass off to daytime medicine team.