1. ¿Unidades de cuidado o unidades de vigilancia intensiva?
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GARCÍA URIBE, JOHN CAMILO, VARGAS OVALLE, JOSÉ LUIS, and VILLALOBOS CRUZ, VÍCTOR ALFONSO
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MORTALITY prevention , *PATIENTS , *CRITICALLY ill , *WORK environment , *HUMANITY , *COMPASSION , *EMERGENCY medical services , *NURSING , *INTENSIVE care units , *PATIENT monitoring , *PHENOMENOLOGY , *CRITICAL care medicine - Abstract
Introduction: The naming of intensive care units (ICUs) has varied over time. From intensive surveillance units, intensive care units, intensive medicine units to critical care units. In practice these denominations seem to overlap to such an extent that surveillance seems to prevail over care. Methodology: reflexive article with a hermeneutic phenomenological approach that addresses the phenomenon of daily life in the ICU in relation to spatial design, power relations and time lived in order to problematize the denomination Intensive Care Unit as opposed to Intensive Surveillance Unit. Results: the daily life of the ICU is a regulated and highly controlled space, in which the life of professionals and patients is conducted through different mechanisms to such an extent that it has characteristics of what authors such as Goffman consider total institutions. In which, through depersonalization mechanisms, the characteristic heterogeneity of the human being is homogenized. Conclusion: Caring implies to watch, to be attentive, to be on guard and to control in some cases. However, it is not reduced to this; caring also implies recognizing oneself as a finite and vulnerable being, that is, as an eminently compassionate being. Care cannot be authoritarian, nor can it undermine the capacity of agency of the subjects of care; on the contrary, it is a possibility that allows us to resist the structures and devices that control life. Caring as an instinctive and reflexive act at the same time, supposes a double nature between pathos and logos, this same nature cannot be blurred inside the ICU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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