Journal Information
Share
Share
Download PDF
More article options
Update in intensive care medicine: Critical patient safety
Available online 28 May 2024
Safe practices in Intensive Care Medicine, is zero risk possible?
Prácticas seguras en los servicios de medicina intensiva. ¿Es posible el riesgo Zero?
Xavier Nuvials Casalsa, Marta García Garcíab,
Corresponding author
mgarciagarcia@hotmail.es

Corresponding author.
a Servei de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Sepsis Organ Dysfunction and Resustitation (SODIR), Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain
b Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Universitario Río Hortega, Valladolid, Spain
Article information
Abstract
Full Text
Bibliography
Download PDF
Statistics
Tables (1)
Table 1. Implementation of safe practices and specific objectives for their development.
Abstract

Incidents related to patient safety are a problem of great impact in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM). Multiple strategies have been developed to identify them, analyze, and develop policies aim at reducing their incidence and minimizing their effects and consequences. The development of a safety culture, an adequate organizational and structural design of the ICM, which contemplates the implementation of effective safe practices, with a provision of human resources adjusted to the care activity carried out and the periodic analysis of the different events and their factors, will allow us to bring the risk of critical patient care closer to zero, as would be desirable.

Keywords:
Safety
Incidents
Risk
Intensive medicine
Resumen

Los incidentes relacionados con la seguridad del paciente suponen un problema de gran impacto en los servicios de Medicina Intensiva (SMI). Se han desarrollado múltiples estrategias a nivel internacional, nacional y local para identificarlos, analizarlos y desarrollar políticas encaminadas a disminuir su incidencia y a minimizar sus efectos y sus consecuencias. El desarrollo de la cultura de seguridad, un adecuado diseño organizativo y estructural de los SMI, que contemple la implantación de prácticas seguras efectivas, con una dotación de recursos humanos ajustada a la actividad asistencial desarrollada y el análisis periódico de los distintos eventos y sus factores, nos permitirán aproximar el riesgo de los cuidados del paciente crítico al cero, como sería deseable.

Palabras clave:
Seguridad
Incidents
Riesgo
Medicina intensiva

Article

These are the options to access the full texts of the publication Medicina Intensiva (English Edition)
Member
If you are a member of the Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias::
Go to the members area of the website of the SEMICYUC (www.semicyuc.org )and click the link to the magazine.
Subscriber
Subscriber

If you already have your login data, please click here .

If you have forgotten your password you can you can recover it by clicking here and selecting the option “I have forgotten my password”
Subscribe
Subscribe to

Medicina Intensiva (English Edition)

Purchase
Purchase article

Purchasing article the PDF version will be downloaded

Price 19.34 €

Purchase now
Contact
Phone for subscriptions and reporting of errors
From Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (GMT + 1) except for the months of July and August which will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Calls from Spain
932 415 960
Calls from outside Spain
+34 932 415 960
Email
Idiomas
Medicina Intensiva (English Edition)
Article options
Tools
es en

¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?