Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Patient Safety and Quality of Care in Intensive Care Medicine
    Unavailable
    Patient Safety and Quality of Care in Intensive Care Medicine
    Unavailable
    Patient Safety and Quality of Care in Intensive Care Medicine
    Ebook517 pages18 hours

    Patient Safety and Quality of Care in Intensive Care Medicine

    By MWV Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    The maxim “Primum non nocere” is almost as old as the practice of medicine. In combination with the principles of beneficence, autonomy and justice, and whilst keeping in mind the confidence and dignity of the patient, it should constitute the basis of our behaviours as physicians and nurses.

    Since diagnostic and therapeutic interventions have become more complex and their risk/benefit ratios more difficult to assess, the importance of safety and quality of care rises. Avoiding the infliction of harm on our patients has moved into the focus of clinical medicine. Patient safety is now viewed as a priority even by the Presidency of the European Union.

    Physicians in intensive care medicine deal with the most fragile and dependent human beings, often struggling with multiple co-morbid diseases and physiological derangements at the limits of survival. These patients are often reliant on numerous invasive technologies for their survival. Moreover, the almost universal need for multiple pharmacological interventions – combinations of which have often never been rigorously tested before – places the critically ill patients at a very high risk of being harmed by the physician’s interventions.

    More than 120 internationally known experts introduce their current knowledge of patient safety and quality of care in intensive care medicine in over 50 chapters covering the following fields:

    - Safety in intensive care medicine

    - Decision making

    - Culture and behaviour

    - Structure and processes

    - Protocolised medicine

    - First, do no harm

    - Safety during technical support

    - Training, teaching and education

    - Risk management

    - Ethical issues

    - Future approaches

    This book should be read by every manager who has responsibility for the acutely ill. It is an invaluable educational and reference tool for physicians and nurses in intensive care medicine and will help to improve the safety and overall care for critically ill patients.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMWV Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft
    Release dateFeb 12, 2015
    ISBN9783954661923
    Unavailable
    Patient Safety and Quality of Care in Intensive Care Medicine

    Related to Patient Safety and Quality of Care in Intensive Care Medicine

    Related ebooks

    Medical For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Integrating Fields Of Medicine + Oncology

      Aug 31, 2018

      People diagnosed with cancer and their families often use therapies such as acupuncture, exercise, diet and meditation to cope with the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of the cancer, and in search of relief from symptoms that their convent

      5 min read

    • Article

      How To Reduce Medical Errors

      Nov 15, 2019

      In 1999, the Institute of Medicine—an organization regarded as an authority at the intersection of medicine and society—published a report, “To Err Is Human,” which found that up to 98,000 Americans were dying annually from medical errors. Twenty yea

      3 min read

    • Article

      How To Reduce Medical Errors

      Nov 16, 2019

      In 1999, the Institute of Medicine—an organization regarded as an authority at the intersection of medicine and society—published a report, “To Err Is Human,” which found that up to 98,000 Americans were dying annually from medical errors. Twenty yea

      3 min read

    • Article

      Opinion: Precision Medicine’s Rosy Predictions Haven’t Come True. We Need Fewer Promises And More Debate

      Feb 7, 2019

      Precision medicine has had minuscule effects on public health while the costs are astronomical. Is it really the best approach for improving health?

      4 min read

    • Article

      Opinion: Moral Injury And Burnout In Medicine: A Year Of Lessons Learned

      Jul 26, 2019

      Applying the concept of "moral injury" to medicine offers insight into the burnout experienced by all types of health care professionals. Tell your story or, even better, your solutions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Opinion: Medical Students Can Help Combat Covid-19. Don’t Send Them Home

      Mar 14, 2020

      Last week, while seeing a patient in the emergency department of Stanford Hospital, I witnessed the well-orchestrated commotion that follows a suspected case of coronavirus. Masked nurses, doctors, and janitors quickly isolated the patient and began

      5 min read

    • Article

      Leading In A Post-covid World

      Mar 1, 2022

      Leading In A Post-covid World
      4 min read

    • Article

      Bias And Other Barriers Keep People From Getting Anti-HIV Drug

      Jun 13, 2018

      Multiple barriers may stop high-risk individuals from getting access to an HIV drug that can reduce the subsequent risk of infection, according to a new research review. Researchers outlined solutions that would help overcome barriers that make it ha

      2 min read

    • Article

      Men With Cancer Are Less Likely To Accept Palliative Care

      Jul 9, 2018

      Men with advanced cancer are 30 percent less likely than women to consider palliative care, according to a new study. The findings reflect social norms about gender roles—as well as widespread messages in the media and society about “fighting” cancer

      3 min read

    • Article

      FROM LIFE-SPAN to health-span

      Nov 30, 2018

      A significant increase in life-span has been achieved in the last 100 years. A corresponding increase in health-span, defined as the maintenance of full function as near as possible to the end of life, will be the next goal in life sciences and medic

      2 min read

    • Article

      When The Doc’s Wrong, He’s Still Right

      Mar 16, 2021

      The doctor is right, and when he’s wrong, he is still right, and if it’s eventually determined he was wrong all along, he’ll be right again soon enough. Many a patient has come up against this wall of medicine’s dogmatic certainty, and the crying sha

      3 min read

    • Article

      Opinion: Do As The Doctor Says, Not As He Or She Does

      Jul 22, 2019

      Merely giving patients more information isn't likely to help them make better health care decisions. Nudges and financial incentives may work better.

      4 min read

    • Article

      What’s up, Doc?

      Mar 20, 2022

      What’s up, Doc?
      12 min read

    • Article

      A Multifaceted Corona Warrior: Briding the Chasm of Covid Ignorance

      Jun 6, 2020

      In this pandemic your contribution has bc-u unique and significant. Could you share about ii. When the lockdown was first announced it whipped up panic all around and so the first thing that I did was to take around 25-30 doctors from different disci

      4 min read

    Reviews for Patient Safety and Quality of Care in Intensive Care Medicine

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words