A Brief Assessment of Patient Safety Culture in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Departments.

Due to the nature of their activity, anesthesia and critical care have generally well-developed patient safety cultures, which are linked to a greater level of incident awareness and reporting during clinical activity. In order to determine the status quo and identify and adopt, where appropriate, techniques and instruments for further improving patient safety, it is necessary to evaluate the culture and barriers in these departments. The main objective of our study was to assess patient safety culture in Romanian anesthesia and intensive care departments (AICDs), to pinpoint the areas that may need improvement, and to examine the correlation between the prevalence of adverse event reporting, as well as the level of self-reported patient safety culture.

[Current methods for wound debridement].

Wound management experienced significant changes in the last half century, while acknowledging the concept of "moist wound healing" and the strategy of "wound bed preparation". New solutions in this area have brought by developing new methods of debridement, exudates management and decrease of bacterial load. Debridement is the most widespread used method for conditioning wound and involves the application of interventions that accelerate the healing process.