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Update in intensive care medicine: Critical patient safety
Available online 30 June 2025
Re-explaining patient safety in Intensive Care Medicine: In need of understanding and action
Reexplicarnos la seguridad del paciente en Medicina Intensiva: necesidad de entender y actuar
María Cruz Martín Delgadoa,b,
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mcmartindelgado@gmail.com

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, Mario Chico Fernándeza, Gonzalo Sirgo Rodríguezc, María Bodíc
a Servicio Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
b Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
c Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Received 28 March 2025. Accepted 31 March 2025
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Both patient safety and risk management in the healthcare field have adjusted to a diversity of conceptual models arising from different industries. Nowadays, Patient Safety should not be anchored to the most classical models but should be complemented by innovative advances that allow for a comprehensive view of all the key elements and the participation of the agents involved in this essential dimension of healthcare quality. This narrative review aims to analyze the approaches that have nurtured the science of safety over time and to offer a holistic and integrative vision that allows professionals, patients, and organizations to understand how we can move forward in achieving a risk-free healthcare system or at least, make it safer. Although there are experiences in the healthcare field of the application of the new paradigms of safety, there are still many pending questions to be solved before integrating and applying them in the real world.

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Patient safety
Risk management
Intensive medicine
Critical patient
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El abordaje de la Seguridad del Paciente (SP) y la gestión del riesgo en el ámbito de la atención sanitaria ha ido adaptándose a diferentes modelos conceptuales, adoptados de diferentes industrias. Actualmente, la SP deja de anclarse a los modelos más clásicos y evoluciona hacia una visión comprensiva (e innovadora) de todos los elementos claves y agentes involucrados en esta dimensión esencial de la calidad asistencial. Por esta razón esta revisión narrativa tiene como objetivo analizar los enfoques que a lo largo del tiempo han nutrido la SP y ofrecer una visión holística e integradora, que permita a los profesionales, pacientes y organizaciones reentender esta ciencia, poder actuar en nuestro entorno inmediato y aumentar el conocimiento. Porque, aunque existen experiencias en el ámbito sanitario de la aplicación de los nuevos paradigmas de la SP, todavía existen cuestiones que resolver antes de integrarlas y aplicarlas en el mundo real.

Palabras clave:
Seguridad del Paciente
Gestión del riesgo
Medicina intensive
Enfermo crítico

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