Intensive care medicine in 2050: preventing harm.

Chris Beet; Dominique Benoit; Julian Bion

Commentary

Intensive care medicine in 2050: preventing harm.

May 1, 2019

Beet C, Benoit D, Bion J. Intensive Care Med. 2019;45(4):505-507.

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This commentary discusses current challenges to safety in critical care, such as underperforming decision support, poor organizational learning, and clinician burnout. The authors envision safety improvements due to innovations in processes like wearable monitoring technology that enables rapid response activation, workflow-embedded reflective learning, and patient–clinician collaboration.

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