Managing daily intensive care activities: An observational study concerning ad hoc decision making of charge nurses and intensivists

摘要

IntroductionManagement of daily activities in ICUs is challenging. ICU shift leaders, charge nurses and intensivists have to make several immediate ad hoc decisions to enable the fluent flow of ICU activities. Even though the management of ICU activities is quite well delineated by international consensus guidelines, we know only a little about the content of the real clinical decision making of ICU shift leaders.