13.01.2022 | Editorial
Towards evidence-based staffing: the promise and pitfalls of patient-to-intensivist ratios
verfasst von:
Meeta Prasad Kerlin, Pedro Caruso
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2022
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Excerpt
As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases surged at different times all over the world, news stories about running out of personal protective equipment, triaging ventilators, and mobile morgues have played on repeat. Likewise, human resources have been stretched beyond their limits. Those same news outlets tell stories of health care workers experiencing burnout and depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, of clinicians leaving their professions en masse [
1]. While this is especially salient in the current moment, the intensivist workforce has been in crisis for years, and shortages are projected to worsen [
2]. Therefore, understanding the tipping point of when the workload of an intensivist is too much, the point at which the quality of their care diminishes, is essential for intensive care unit (ICU) organization even beyond our current crisis. …