Special communication app for ICU patients

July 7, 2016

The department of Intensive Care of the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has developed a special communication app for the adult and pediatric ICU patients, who cannot speak because of an intubation, being on a ventilator or breathing through a tracheostoma.

The app, called voICe, was released in May 2013 and has been used in the Radboud University Medical Centre and 100 other hospitals in the Netherlands & Belgium ever since.Many improvements have been achieved, and in May 2016, a special enlarged keyboard  for the write canvas and a translation in the English language were launched.

We invite you and your colleagues to visit the website www.voice-intensivecare.comand meet the app and its communication possibilities for your ICU patients.

Please be so kind to spread the news about the app voICe in your country.

VoICe is available in the European App Store,
see tags ‘voice intensive care’,
‘voice’ or ‘intensive care’.
Availability in the USA, Canadian and
Australian app Store will follow soon.

Willem Roudijk,
Patient Care Advisor
Radboud UMC