ICU ward list · Beds 1–10 and R1–R5 · every keystroke is saved.
| Bed | Status | ||
| Transfer to | |||
| Viewing shift | Go to today returns here | ||
| Restore patient | |||
| Patient details | |||
| First name | Last name | ||
| Date of birth | Age | ||
| Sex | Hospital number | ||
| Resuscitation | |||
| Last saved | |||
| Hospital admission | Days Hosp | ||
| ICU admission | Days ICU | ||
| Reason for ICU admission | |||
| Reason for readmission | |||
| HPC — history of presenting complaint | |||
| PMHx | |||
| Medication | |||
| SHx — social history | |||
| Smoker | Number / day | ||
| ETOH | Units / week | ||
| Ex tol | |||
| CFS | |||
| Occupation | Accommodation | ||
| Profession | |||
| Observations — anything left blank will not print | |||
| Resp | |||
| Airway | Mode | ||
| Insp | PH | ||
| PL | PEEP | ||
| TH | TL | ||
| FiO2 | Flow | ||
| Sats | |||
| CVS | |||
| Noradrenaline | Adrenaline | ||
| Vasopressin | Levosimendan | ||
| Dobutamine | Milrinone | ||
| Methylene blue | Rhythm | ||
| REN | |||
| UO ml/hr | NPH ml/hr | ||
| FB +ve / -ve | FB | ||
| RRT | |||
| Neu | |||
| GCS | RASS | ||
| Sedation | Sedation + | ||
| Analgesia | |||
| GI | |||
| NGF ml/hr | NGH2O ml/hr | ||
| TPN ml/hr | Diet | ||
| Others | |||
| Current issues | |||
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| Clinical course | |||
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| Investigations | |||
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| Micro — organisms and antibiotics | |||
(Organisms)
(Antibiotics)
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| Plans & follow-up | |||
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Planned
F/UP | |||
| Discharge | |||
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| Click the ✖ beside a line to remove it. | |||
Append-only. Nothing here is ever overwritten.
Darticus is a ward list for the fifteen ICU beds, for clinical handover. Everything you type is saved as you go — there is no save button and nothing to remember at the end of a shift.
Put your initials in the box at the top left. They are stamped against every save, so anyone else on the unit can see who last touched the list.
Darticus holds identifiable patient data. It belongs on a Trust-managed server, and needs a named information asset owner, a data protection impact assessment, sign-off from the Caldicott Guardian or IG lead, and an agreed retention period for saved shifts. Never a personal device or a public web address.
Restore most recent list brings back the last saved shift if today’s list has been lost or emptied by mistake. It asks first, and tells you which shift it is about to put back. Download archive folder packs every saved shift into a zip, arranged by year and month.
The fifteen tiles across the top are the whole unit at a glance. Red is ventilated, green is wardable, plain is occupied, dashed is empty. Each tile carries the surname and the headline numbers — mode, first pressor, renal replacement.
Click a tile to go to that patient. An amber ! means that bed is missing something it needs before the list can print.
The dark strip at the top of the form stays on screen as you scroll, showing the bed, name, age and sex, hospital number and ICU day of whoever you are editing, plus their resuscitation status if one is set. Its lower edge is red for ventilated and green for wardable, and the whole strip turns dark red on a finished shift. Click it to jump back to the top.
Underneath the grid, a bar shows how much of the current patient is done and how many beds across the unit are ready. Anything missing appears as a red chip — click it and you land on that box. It turns green when the patient is complete, so you find out at the start of a round rather than when you press print.
To admit — choose an empty bed and start typing. That is the whole of it. Or press New patient and it will ask which bed.
To move someone — pick the destination in Transfer to and press Transfer. If that bed is occupied the two patients swap, after asking.
To discharge — press Discharge. The record is archived first, so nothing is lost.
Came back? Type their hospital number or surname in the search box beside Restore patient. The list narrows as you type and a single match is selected for you. Press Restore.
You are then asked which this is. Readmission means back to ICU within the same hospital stay: the ICU admission date resets to today, the day count starts again, and a Reason for readmission box opens which must be filled before the list will print. It replaces the original reason on the printed sheet. Same admission puts the record back exactly as it was.
Most boxes offer a list. On a computer, start typing to narrow it, or click a box that already has a value to see the whole list again. On a tablet they are dropdowns: one tap opens, one tap chooses. Only values on the list are kept.
A box left blank means there is nothing to report, and prints nothing.
To clear a box, click it and then click away without choosing anything. Clicking a box empties it so the whole list is visible, so clicking away leaves it blank. A message underneath names whatever was cleared, so it never happens quietly.
Airway is the one box that also offers N/A. Blank there means nobody has answered yet; N/A means somebody looked and there is no airway device. Only N/A or Trache allows a patient to be marked wardable.
Age works itself out from the date of birth and cannot be typed. Days ICU and Days Hosp likewise, from the two admission dates.
Some boxes open and close depending on others:
Every occupied bed must have: both names, date of birth, sex, hospital number, both admission dates, HPC, PMHx, resp mode, smoker, ETOH, exercise tolerance, frailty score, occupation and accommodation — plus at least one entry in each of Resp, CVS, REN, Neu and GI. Anything missing stops the print, lists what is needed, and turns those boxes red.
The Print tab shows exactly what will come out. Choose A4 and landscape. Only occupied beds are printed; the header carries the free bed count. To keep a PDF, choose Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer.
Clinical course — a date and an event, oldest first. Tick omit beside an old entry to keep it here but leave it off the printed sheet. That is how you stop a long admission swamping the page.
Investigations — a date, what was done and what it showed, newest first. They print in their own column, between the clinical course and the observations.
Micro — organisms on the left with their source, antibiotics on the right, newest first. Every antibiotic shows the day of its course as (D4), counted from the start date with the first day as D1. Tick completed when the course finishes: it turns red, is struck through, and the count freezes at its total. Once a completed course is more than a fortnight old it drops off the printed sheet to save room, but stays on the form marked off the sheet.
Plans and follow-up is a fourth, simpler one: choose Planned or F/UP, add a date and the entry, and they appear as chips with an ✖ on each.
Nothing is added until every box in that row is filled, and the message underneath says which one is missing.
Always in the browser on the computer you are using, so closing the tab or losing power loses nothing. Every keystroke is saved; there is no save button.
If your IT team have installed the store on the server, that is all you need to know — every computer and tablet reads and writes the same list, and there is nothing to set up on any of them. The pill at the top says Shared list — nothing to set up.
Without the store, a computer can instead be pointed at a shared folder on the clinical drive. That is one click per computer, once, and tablets cannot join in at all. If you see an amber bar saying this device is not connected, do not enter patients on it — use a ward computer.
Every print also saves a snapshot of the whole list. The Snapshots tab searches them by hospital number, name, age or date of birth, and Open shows that shift exactly as it was printed, ready to print again. The Archive tab is a different thing: an append-only log of every admission, transfer, discharge and print, which is never overwritten.
The same page, and the same list, on both. It adapts to what it is running on: a computer gets type-to-filter boxes and a compact layout, a tablet gets native dropdowns and larger controls, and in portrait the form becomes a single column.
On the iPad, open the address in Safari and use Share › Add to Home Screen. It then opens full screen, without the browser bars, and behaves like an app.
Two things only work on a computer running Edge or Chrome: linking a shared folder, and filing printed sheets into it. Neither is needed when the store is installed, which is why the store is the better arrangement where tablets are in use.
Changes made elsewhere appear within about six seconds. You do not need to refresh anything.
If someone saves while you are mid-sentence, the pill turns amber and a Refresh button appears rather than the list moving under your hands. Press it when you are ready.
If two people change the same list within a few seconds of each other, you are asked which version to keep. Two ward lists cannot be merged, so nothing is guessed. In practice this is rare, but on a busy handover it is worth agreeing who is holding the list.
Every save carries the initials of whoever made it, shown beside the pill at the top, so it is always clear who touched it last.