Engineering Resilience Into Intensive Care Units

Summary Intensive Care Units (ICU) are high risk, dynamic systems, characterized by the omnipresence of the unexpected, the diversity of situations and actors, as well as the presence of complex interactions at all levels. Recently, as a result of concomitant increased economic pressure and increased public demand for intensive care accessibility, the constraints on ICUs have been growing in an exponential manner. Even wealthy ICUs are regularly facing so called “overload” situations (patient..