# ICU — Case study

> A healthcare partner deployed VideoDB across their ICU rooms. Bedside cameras now alert on falls, hygiene, respiration, and sedation in realtime — every alert paired with a playable clip and a clean record of what happened.

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## Hero

A coworker for the night shift, watching every bed.

A healthcare partner deployed VideoDB across their ICU rooms. Bedside cameras now alert on falls, hygiene, respiration, and sedation, in realtime. Every alert comes with a playable clip and a clean record of what happened.

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## 01 — The shift

**Two nurses. Twenty beds. A long night.**

An ICU at 2 a.m. has a steady rhythm and an unsteady patient. The vitals monitor catches the body. The cameras catch the room. Until now, no one was watching both at the same time.

If a patient slipped out of bed at 2:14 a.m., the team learned about it on rounds. If a sedation level shifted, it took a vitals review the next morning to notice the posture change. Hand-hygiene compliance lived on a clipboard.

The team did not need more screens. They needed **another set of eyes** that never blinked.

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## 02 — The build

**Realtime alerts. Connected to the whole patient record.**

Every bedside camera streams into VideoDB. A clinical model layers on top: posture, motion, hygiene, respiration rate. Vitals from existing trackers flow into the same patient context. The result is a single timeline per bed, where camera evidence and vitals tell one story.

### Alert types

- **Fall · Bed exit** — Patient left bed unassisted. Pages the nurse with a playable clip from 5 seconds before the event.
- **Hand hygiene** — Compliance, not on a clipboard. Counts hand-hygiene events at the dispenser. Daily report writes itself.
- **Respiration** — Camera-derived breath rate. Cross-checked against pulse-ox. Outliers flagged before the alarm fires.
- **Sedation · Position** — Posture and stillness, watched. Track time at each posture. Trigger turn reminders. Confirm sedation depth visually.

### Bed 12 — night handover

| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 22:10 | Asleep · left lateral |
| 23:48 | Turn complete · nurse assist |
| 02:14 | Bed exit attempt (alert) |
| 02:16 | Nurse at bedside |
| 03:42 | Respiration steady · 16/min |

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## 03 — The outcome

**Every claim, backed by a clip.**

The morning handover used to be a story told from memory. It is now a timeline a clinician can scrub. Each event, from a bed exit to a hand-hygiene moment, has a playable clip beside the note.

Hand-hygiene audits, posture-care compliance, and incident reviews stopped pulling time away from the floor. The system tells the story. The clinicians spend their time on the patient.

| Metric | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Latency | Sub-second | Alert latency at the bedside. From frame to pager. |
| Record | 1 | Camera + vitals + tracker in one place. Per patient. Per bed. |
| Evidence | Every clip | Playable evidence attached to every event. Audit-ready by default. |

> "On a 12-bed unit, we did not add another nurse. We added another set of eyes that never looked away." — Clinical lead, ICU deployment

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## Bring this to your ICU

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